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[AlanB]

Circa 1964 Kent England.

And to think I could have driven from West Sussex to Kent and bought Manystation from you in person!

I would also suggest that you don't read more than a couple of pages of the manual at any time or you're likely to go bonkers.

What am I going to read in bed at night then?

AlanB

[AlanB]

Meanwhile.......... back at the wave sequencer.............

I've set up a blank preset, and added a wave to "W1". I've set the start and end steps, and set the speed.

If I select Pan or Volume in the first lane, I understand what's happening. But what does it mean if I select Soundset? What is that controlling?

It seems that if I don't have values in a step I can hear the wave. If I have values, I can't. Does that mean it's to stop a wave playing in those steps?

Regards

AlanB

[Simon_Cann]

Alan

I'll try and answer this one as I really can't suggest what you should be reading in bed.

The regular layers (01 to 04) allow you to load only one soundset in each layer. By contrast, the wave-sequence layers give you 32 wave slots in each layer (so a total of 64 possible different waves over the two layers).

To load the waves into the layers, click on the soundset name (under the 01 to 04 buttons) or use the up and down toggle selector to the right of the soundset name to click between waves. To switch between the 32 slots, click on the number to the left of the soundset name and choose the appropriate slot where you can then load another wave. With this dropdown list of slots, you can see which waves have already been loaded.

If you then open the wave-sequence editor menu and choose soundset as the destination for a lane, then each bar in that lane can have 32 possible settings - each setting directly corresponds to a slot in the soundset list (accessed by clicking on the number to the left of the soundset's name). You cannot not have a value in a step - if the bar is set to the minimum, then in fact you have selected slot one.

When you are dragging one of the bars, if you look at the display (which usually shows the patch name), you will see that it displays the step number and the soundset you have chosen. If you haven't loaded a soundset into a particular slot (and there is no need to load up all of the slots) then the soundset selected will be "silence" (and so you will not hear anything for that step.

If you want an example of a very simple wave-sequence patch, you can get one from here: http://www.noisesculpture.com/w-seq[spc].prst

One other thing to remember - and I know you will know this as a keen manual reader - some of the soundsets in ManyStation are pretty big: this is a reflection of the level of detail of the samples. If you start loading several of the larger soundsets (for instance the Strat samples) then you will first find that the patches take a while to load and secondly that ManyStation may fall over if you use all of your system's memory.

I hope this makes some sense - just shout if you need any further explanation.

All the best

Simon

[AlanB]

Oh.... I get it! (Doh!). It's so obvious when you know!

If I was to have more than one wave in (say) step 2, would Volume (for example) affect both waves? Or can you associate one Volume control lane with only one of the waves?

Thanks for all your help on this BTW.

Regards

Alan

[M'Snah]

AFAIK each step only has one wave/soundset, so volume, panning, etc. appy to that single wave. (once for W1 and once for W2 actually)

If you would want to use the wave sequencer to change the volume of O1 - O4, then you would select Mod 1 in the wave sequencer, and add something like W1 Mod 1 modulates O1 volume in the modulation matrix...

[AlanB]

HansM / Simon

Thanks for all the help. I'm really getting into this now.


Alan