Using The Editor - Panda-Audio Future Impact I User Manual

Using the editor

Copy the software package into any directory on your computer, connect your
MIDI interface to the computer and start FIprog100b.exe. The FI is a very
complex device with more than 100 parameters for a sound. In order to get an
overview it is worth to investigate first the block diagrams of the FI algorithms
in the Appendix. On the first page you find the whole device, except the
effects. However, the oscillators appear here just as a rough outline, the
detailed picture of the oscillators is on the second page. The third page shows
how the effect block is inserted into the structure of FI.
FI has two basic sound sources: The harmonizer/bass guitar sound block and
the synthesizer block. The synthesizer is driven by the information derived
from the bass guitar sound. The bass guitar must be played with clean,
monophonic riffs. The whole range of 6 string bass guitars is supported.
Slapping, tapping or chord playing does not provide appropriate information
about the pitch of the vibration, this can result in false notes of the
synthesizer. The sounds of FI can be created from the synthesizer sound, the
harmonizer/bass guitar sound, or a mixture of the two.
In the MIDI pull-down menu you have to select the MIDI IN and MIDI OUT
ports that you want to use. If you want to write sound programs into your FI
then you must have two MIDI connections between FI and the computer, one
cable from the MIDI OUT of the interface to the MIDI IN of FI, and one from
the MIDI OUT of FI into MIDI IN on the computer. If you just want to edit
sounds and experiment with them, without writing them into FI, then it is
enough to have one MIDI connection, from MIDI OUT of the computer into
MIDI IN of FI. In this case, if you want to design a sound using a keyboard
instead of the bass guitar you can connect the MIDI OUT of the keyboard into
the MIDI IN of the computer, and the computer will perform a through
function for the keyboard signals.
In the FILE pull-down menu you find five options, plus Exit. In Select Directory
you have to select the directory where you keep the sound programs. With
Load Program you can load a sound program into the FI, and with Save
Program you can save a sound program that you edited. You can save and load
a sound program with any name, but if you want to write it into the FI then the
name determines the location where it will be written to.
The first two characters must be a number between 01...99 in order to
address a memory location in FI.
Write Program from File to FI will select one sound program, and write it into
FI. You have to select a sound program here that has the appropriate number
at the beginning of the name. If it does not, then Load it and Save it with an
appropriate name. While this option will work even if you have just one cable
from the PC to FI, the computer program will not get a confirmation of the
writing action and an error message will appear, so it is recommended to use
both cables. Write All Programs from Files to FI will copy all sound programs
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