Re: SynthLab Instruments

[tribby@cup.hp.com (Dave Tribby)]

gachot@bonnet.enet.dec.com wrote:

> 	How can I create from Srcatch a new .bnk file. Or how 
> 	can I create a .bnk files by copying instrument from
> 	one .bnk file to an other.

It's been almost a year since I released version 0.1 of waveLAB. It's
available via ftp from cco.caltech.edu in 
	/pub/apple2/music/synthlab/wavelab01.shk
Here's its description...

> waveLAB is a companion program to Apple's synthLAB. Version 0.1 lets you
>    - create MIDI Synth waveforms
>    - load individual waveforms from MIDI Synth wave data (".wav") files
>    - create MIDI Synth instruments (similar to Apple's synthLAB program)
>    - load individual instruments from  MIDI Synth instrument (".bnk") files
>    - plot graphs of an instrument's waveforms or envelopes
>    - save the instruments and waveforms you have created
> This version is preliminary and incomplete; help me make the next one
> more useful. Included in the archive are  descriptions of the contents of
> MIDI Synth instrument (type $D6, aux $0001) and wave data (type $D8, aux
> $0004) files.

After several months "detour" workiing on MIDI Surgeon (published in
the Jan/Feb GS+ magazine) and translating several hundred MIDI songs
to MIDI Synth format, I recently began working on waveLAB once again.
These features have been added in the last week...
	- Load and play sequences
	- Modify track/channel map
Before releasing version 1.0, I'd like to add
	- Load an arbitrary file as a waveform (just for you, Ian!)
	- Remove instruments from the instrument list
	- Juggle instruments within the list (reassign numbers)
	- Remove unused waveforms

--Dave Tribby (tribby@cup.hp.com)