User Guide

Chapter 13: Tools and Utilities
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Tip: Virtually any combination of display events can be selected in the filter. It is therefore possible to select combinations
that do not display any MIDI events at all. The MIDI Monitor will warn you about the more obvious “nil” combinations, but if
you find that you are not receiving what you expected, carefully re-examine these filter settings.
Sound Blaster Support
There is direct support for the Sound Blaster series of sound cards. This includes a built-in AWE Editor, allowing
you to edit the synthesizer sounds on the AWE 32/64 series and to directly load Sound Fonts. There are also on-
screen buttons to launch the Sound Blaster applets that control the MIDI Synthesizer (AWE Control) and Mixer on
the Sound Blaster card.
Press the [SB] button at the right of the main screen toolbar, or select GM | Run Other Program to run the
AWE 32 Applet.
Example: Install the GS Sound Font on the Sound Blaster. This will install the “Drum Brushes” sounds that Band-
in-a-Box styles use on some Jazz Styles. Once you launch this applet, click on the Synthesizer Panel, and then
select GS from the Available Synths, and press the [Apply] button.
Tip: If pressing these buttons doesn't result in the AWE Control Panel or the Mixer being launched, it means that either
you don't have a SB card capable of loading Sound Fonts (e.g. a SB16/128 has no Sound Font capability) or there is an
error in the text file c:\windows\sbwin.ini
AWE 32/64 editor
Edit Sound Blaster AWE 32/64 synthesizer sounds directly using this built in editor. Save/Load files with new
sounds. The AWE Editor is a patch editor for the Creative AWE32 and AWE64 sound cards’ EMU 8000
synthesizer chip. AWE Editor also works with the Creative Sound Blaster Live sound card.
Event List Editor
You can edit events including all MIDI events and lyric events using the Event List Editor. It can be launched in
several ways.
- In the Melody menu, choose Edit Melody Track | Step Edit Melody.
- In the Soloist menu, choose Edit Soloist Track | Step Edit Soloist Part.
- In the Notation menu, choose Event List Editor…
or in the Notation window by pressing the event list button (#).
Different colors are used for different event types in the event list, to visually distinguish notes, patch changes, etc.
The Event list for the notation colors the events differently as follows:
- Notes starting near the beat boundary are dark pink.
- Notes starting on the off-beat are light pink.
- Patch changes are cyan.
- Controller changes are yellow.
- Pitch Bends are grey.
The Event List Editor allows you to modify, insert, and delete notes:
- Double-click on an event to edit it (or press the [Edit] button.)
- [Insert] puts an event before the current event.
- [Append] puts an event at the end of the track.
- [Delete] removes an event.
- [Update] redraws the notation screen.
- [Edit Lyrics] – [Edit Soloist] – [Edit Melody] selects which track to edit.