My apologies, I know this is probably covered in manuals, but I haven't had luck on getting straight-forward, easy steps to do this. I'm brand new to this type of thing, but I basically need to get a single sound effect onto the board and assigned to a program so it will be available for stage-use.
I've got the sound saved on my PC as a WAV file.. I didn't have much luck with the direct connection to the PC (probably due to my lack of a compact flash card - any URLs to compatible ones I can buy would be appreciated!). So I put the WAV file on a USB flash drive. Connected it to the back, and eventually I had luck in getting the sound recognized in the MEDIA location. However, what is the easiest way of getting it assigned to a sound at that point?
Sorry again for this type of noob question, but I'm wanting this to be a good learning experience - I have lots of plans for my usage of this board, and I need to start here at the basics.. Thanks a ton!!
-Vince
Noob in need of help! Loading sounds from PC/USB
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If you don't have CF yet (browse throughout this forum, you'll see many posts regarding CF, generally all Sandisk cards are supported, SDCFB 2.0 GB is officially supported, for instance), you can use your USB stick.
Insert it when keyboard is off, then turn the keyboard on, go to MEDIA, and at the bottom press arrow to call media types, you'll see your USB there, if not, use Scan USB device option and Format (upper right dropping menu).
Now, once when your USB stick is recognized, you'll find your wave file on it (assuming you previously copied it to USB stick from PC). You can't use wave as a sound without loading it to sample memory (RAM) and assigning it to key or key range, meaning you have to create sample/multisample from it, then create sound that will use that multisample.
To explain all of this would be too long if you are doing it for the first time - please, read the Paramater guide and browse previous posts in this section. You'll see there are many older topics regarding to this process.
Insert it when keyboard is off, then turn the keyboard on, go to MEDIA, and at the bottom press arrow to call media types, you'll see your USB there, if not, use Scan USB device option and Format (upper right dropping menu).
Now, once when your USB stick is recognized, you'll find your wave file on it (assuming you previously copied it to USB stick from PC). You can't use wave as a sound without loading it to sample memory (RAM) and assigning it to key or key range, meaning you have to create sample/multisample from it, then create sound that will use that multisample.
To explain all of this would be too long if you are doing it for the first time - please, read the Paramater guide and browse previous posts in this section. You'll see there are many older topics regarding to this process.
Thanks shrike, for the helpful and fast response. I searched around the threads and successfully found a good 2.0GB CF card to purchase, so I look forward to that coming in!
Thanks also for the info on loading the sounds from USB. I found a very helpful thread on these forums that contained the specific steps, and I was successful in loading my first Sound Effect on the board into a Program/combi! I realize this is meaningless (and humorously easy) to experts, but I feel I've taken my first steps here with the first of probably many tasks I will have.
However, before I post in the future, I promise to try to search the manuals thoroughly first to make sure my questions are not already answered there before posting.
I have a couple other questions, but I will keep reading the ParamGuide in the meantime to see if I can get them answered there - I'm learning quite a bit so far.. Perhaps this thing isn't as daunting as I was making it out to be
Thanks also for the info on loading the sounds from USB. I found a very helpful thread on these forums that contained the specific steps, and I was successful in loading my first Sound Effect on the board into a Program/combi! I realize this is meaningless (and humorously easy) to experts, but I feel I've taken my first steps here with the first of probably many tasks I will have.
However, before I post in the future, I promise to try to search the manuals thoroughly first to make sure my questions are not already answered there before posting.I have a couple other questions, but I will keep reading the ParamGuide in the meantime to see if I can get them answered there - I'm learning quite a bit so far.. Perhaps this thing isn't as daunting as I was making it out to be
Of course you can, but the procedure is the same, you have to create samples and multisample first, then assign that multisample to a program.
Step 1:
Load your different wave files to RAM (lets say you have one wave that is basically some quitar solo, one wave file with a cappela singing and one wave file with some piano piece)
in RAM you'll now have three files as three samples
Step 2:
map those files to keys - for example, map quitar solo sample to key C4, singing to C5 and piano piece to C6
Step 3:
save .ksc data. Now you'll have one multisample with three samples
Step 4:
assign that multisample to program and you'll have what you wanted - program with different waves.
Now all this is very basic, you see I didn't guide you step by step, you'll learn that from the book, I just wanted to point you that your idea can be realized.
You can do much more, but if you have trouble with this, ask and I will write more thorough procedure, parameter after parameter.
Step 1:
Load your different wave files to RAM (lets say you have one wave that is basically some quitar solo, one wave file with a cappela singing and one wave file with some piano piece)
in RAM you'll now have three files as three samples
Step 2:
map those files to keys - for example, map quitar solo sample to key C4, singing to C5 and piano piece to C6
Step 3:
save .ksc data. Now you'll have one multisample with three samples
Step 4:
assign that multisample to program and you'll have what you wanted - program with different waves.
Now all this is very basic, you see I didn't guide you step by step, you'll learn that from the book, I just wanted to point you that your idea can be realized.
You can do much more, but if you have trouble with this, ask and I will write more thorough procedure, parameter after parameter.
Every thing above applies only when one program is in place.
With combi, you can assign few different programs/sounds to different parts of keybed, it's called split, and can be done in Combination Menu section P4 Edit Zone/Ctrl, tab Key Z (meaning Key zone, from which to which key will the program be assigned).
Regards,
shrike
With combi, you can assign few different programs/sounds to different parts of keybed, it's called split, and can be done in Combination Menu section P4 Edit Zone/Ctrl, tab Key Z (meaning Key zone, from which to which key will the program be assigned).
Regards,
shrike
Thanks so much!! I got it working just the way I needed thanks to your helpful post.
My next task at hand is to search through all the sounds I've downloaded to find some ones I can use for layering and creating my own. Is it pretty easy to layer sounds on top of each other, etc? I'll start reading up on it in the meantime.
My next task at hand is to search through all the sounds I've downloaded to find some ones I can use for layering and creating my own. Is it pretty easy to layer sounds on top of each other, etc? I'll start reading up on it in the meantime.