USER DEVICES
(for global keys, look at the bottom)



Here you edit the bank descriptions.
Most of the times, it's not enough to only know that you're
using a sound blaster live, an external midi out port, a soft
synth, etc. You need to know what instruments are in the
current device, how is it called, what is attached to it, etc.

User Device:

Create your custom device here, and select the hardware midi
port that it will use. 

Bank:

Midi protocol by itself is limited to only switching
between 127 patches. To override this horrible limit
"banks" were created. This means.. you can choose 
the "bank" a channel is using. This done by sending
the "bank select number" through controllers 0 and 32.

Usually, the bank is a 14 bits long number (so you get up
to.. uhm.. i think 16384 banks or something). In most
keyboards/synths (and to make life easier to everyone) this bank is divided in two 7 bits number, the most significant byte (upper 7 bits) and least significant byte (lower 7 bits)

If you see that your synth manufacturer gives you a big weird number instead of two little nice ones for the banks, you need
to do the math by yourself to get MSB/LSB.
this is easy:

Divide the big number by 127: the result is the MSB and the remainder the LSB.

Once you got to setup the bank, you can edit the patch names.




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GLOBAL KEYS



ESC - file menu
F1- section help
F2- pattern screen
F3- instrument screen
F5 - play song
F6 - play current pattern
F7 - play song from cursor
F8 - stop
shift-F8 - panic

F11 - Order list
F12 - Global variables

numpad / (slash) - decrease editing octave
numpad * (asterisk) - increase editing octave

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