Applied Engineering AUDIO ANIMATOR User Manual page 99

MIDI Problems
Songs from other MIDI recordings sound awful
Some songs are recorded using several keyboards, drum
machines, MIDI sa xes, etc. The in [ruclions lhat may have
been a drum track on one machine will ound like pure nOise
on another. Also, whal may have b en the organ program on
one instrument may be the gong program on another. Try
turning off different lrack and setling the program values
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MIDI Song Won't Play
You must have a MIDI device connected to playa MIDI song.
MIDI files will not play out the computer speaker or AA's
speakers.
Make sure the MIDI OUT of the AA box is connected to the
MIDI IN of the MIDI device.
The MIDI file may have been set up to play out a different
channel than your device's channel setting. Try setting aU
channels to CH 1 with your MIDI device set up as CH
1.
Loading a Song that is more than eight tracks
AA has a maximum of eight tracks. If the file you are loading
has more than eight, you'll get a message explaining that AA
cannot load the song. If possible, load the song into the
program in which it was created and mix the tracks together
or save the tracks as different files.
Digitizer Problems
Distorted Sound
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Once again, is the AA's connector plate screwed
onto the back panel? Is the other end securely
connected to the card? If not, the Audio Animator
is not grounding properly.
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Is the E-I/O cable connected to both the Audio
Animator and the motherboard?
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Check your speaker wires. Are all the connections
secure? Are bare wires from the left and right wires
or the power and ground touching?
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Are you clipping the sound? If the peaks of your
sound waves are flattened against the top and/or
bottom of the sound graph window (see picture
following), you're clipping. This results in distorted
sound. Turn down your record level.
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