| Archive for dxarmy.com sp1200 forum for users of emu sp1200 drumachine |
| psoul |
TUTORIAL DUMP EMU SP1200 - AWAVE STUDIOHere the tutorial for sp1200 dumpprogram: awave studio ( http://www.fmjsoft.com) (download the last version cause old version have some prob with the SEND ALL) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- let's start! the problem as the manual of emu say is that u can't dump a file to an empty pad... i mean u have to already have a sample on the pad where you want to "send" the file from awave.... extract from sp1200 manual, page 79 -------------------------------- Note: The SP 1200 will only send the request if the selected sound is NOT empty. The SP 1200 will only accept sound data up to the size of the existing sound in the selected location. If a smaller sound is sent, the SP 1200 will fill the leftover memory with silence. You should then truncate the sound to conserve available memory. -------------------------------- i suggest you to made a custom floppy in which u already assign sample to some pads... i did this (just an example): i sample silence in every pad... and i set the lenght of every sample at 0,5 seconds, so i have something like this: 
i assign 0.5 seconds for every pad from A1 to B8... so i use totally 8 seconds and i have 2 seconds free....(max 10 seconds of emu sp1200) of course is just a case, u can make different setup.... ps pay attention to the lengh of sample... i assign 0.5 seconds for pad, so i have to fit a sample file less or equal to 0.5 seconds (90kb), otherwise emu will trunc the sample at 0.5.... be aware ok now u can open awave and load the files u need before to make dump u must resample file to the emu appropriate khz, and exaclty at 26.040 so select all the files and go to TOOLS then AUDIO PROCESSING WIZARD, then RESAMPLE (Convert Sample Rate) and resample all.... for the algorhythm to use check the FIR filter: 24 bit s/n in order to have better conversion.... after this u can go to I/O then MIDI SDS TRANSMIT and u'll see a window like this 
here u must check the Slow dev option, cause emu sp1200 need to be a little time to "eat" the file.... check obviously the 12bit.... the rest is easy u can choose the file and then the sample location (check the pictures above) and u're done.... u can use the "send all" but u must pay attention to lengh of sample, otherwise any error will trunc the whole process... but if u have made all ok u can send all the sample at one click, ready to have sp1200 full of sounds and ready to play!! This is the function i LOVE, I usually do drums on emu and some stabs, so I put all the samples inside awave, and click SEND ALL!!! remember to download the latest version cause it has a delay for every sample dump, so for that, u can dump all the sample, cause the delay let sp1200 get out of the previous dump and be ready to receive a new one!! for any help leave a msg here.... a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PpVMzKiAFg pay attention to sound card too.... i try with xstation of novation and it doesn't works... i use a m-audio uno midi and it works perfectly.... |
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| thx |
great!
thanx a lot for the tutorial, i'll try it soon as possible |
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| thx |
trial versionthe trial version do works?or i need the full version of awave 10.2? thanks 
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| psoul |
hey thx i really don't know cause i bought the program a lot of time ago...
i think yes, however try so all the folks here will know about it... |
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| px-7 |
Props bro. That's tight! | ||
| DFACE DXA |
good work homie | ||
| thx |
awave v10.0yeah! it works really welli have Awave version 10.0, so no "send all" transfer, but it works! thank you very much for the tips |
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| thx |
sp to pcdo you tried also the midi dump from sp to pc? do you know if it works too? i haven't tried yetthanks again |
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| psoul |
well i try and it works, only one sample at time....
let's see in the next update if the dump all would be implemented.... it would be a cool backup system.... |
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| Mr Macks |
Did you check if they go back in ok ? That would be a cool way to make quick drum kits up / swap sounds. | ||
| DFACE DXA |
wait so you have to sample silence in teh sp to transfer sounds? im confused. psould ill prob ask you on the aim tip | ||
| psoul |
i sampled silence, but u can use an already done kit... the fact is that sp1200 doesn't allow u to dump sound if the pad is empty...
for example u have a 0,5 sec kick on the A1, nothing on A2, a snare of 1,0 sec on A3 if u have a file of 0,7 sec in awave and u dump to: sample location 0 (so A1): the file will be trunc at 0.5 sec long sample location 1 (so A2): the file dump will be fail sample location 2 (so A3): the file will be perfect i just have done a kit of "silence" cause i record all at the right sample lenght... so for example an other kit i have is made in this way from A1 to B2 (totally 10 pad) i sampled 0.5 lenght to each one.... for a total of 0.5 sec * 10 so i use 5 seconds total.... pad B3 and B4 are of 2.5 sec each one... so i can fit rhodes chord for example.... when in awave i use to rename that sample with an "x" or "z" in front of the name, so in an alphabetic order they are the last (cause in dump all AWAVE follow the alphab. order).... so at the end i can "send all" cause i'm sure they are the last in order to be sent, properly ready for the pad B3 and B4..... hope it's clear... it'a bit complicatd but when u understand the trick is really perfect as a system To Mr Macks: yeah for the moment is only one sample at time... i sent a mail to the author program and he reply that he will try to get a look (i sent him a service manual) in order to update soon that function... so u can backup all your old floppy at a sort of RECEIVE ALL with just one click(of course only the soundfiles).... |
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| Mr Macks |
Thts great man, theoretically you could sample into sp, and save icks snares etc into the PC and have a huge range of samps to build kits from, swap sounds etc.
You've done some mad work there psoul. |
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| RHYTHM MONSTER |
Good work here psoul this should help alot of people. | ||
| thx |
yes, sure
really good work |
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| psoul |
yo guys tnx all too, but u should tnx the guy of awave studio.... he has made this "new" fuction....
he told me that he has done also a better system of conversion for s1000/3000 kit to akai mpc.... but it's not the place to talk about it.... |
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| 12BIT |
this looks interesting- excuse my awave newb questions..but...
what is a suitable computer to run this on- will an old version of windows support this..say windows 98? or 2000 also i see it dumps sounds from pc to sp- but how do i get sounds first onto the pc..will it dump sp to pc?? if those are the sounds i wanna dump?? also can you maybe treat sounds on say protools and then dump them..like sp dump to pc- then treat on protools then dump back onto sp.. hope im not sounding too ignorant..im just used to the sp as is.. hope this makes sense |
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| px-7 |
buy sample cds. download loops and cut them up in a wave editor.
rip your cd's to wave files and then export to the 1200. sample instruments in your studio you have laying around or rent them or borrow them from a friend. buy some shit and return it. sample anything inspiring to you. dude pick up some music magazines or books on sampling. watch video's on youtube. this is really hella basic shit here |
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