AWEVBANK Manager V1.00
AWEVBANK Manager V1.10

(C)95 By Markus Eisenstoeck / Megota Software

AWEVBANK allows you to create your own Virtual Banks, that means a bank that includes just the pointers to the instruments and SBK files, but not the instruments. You can save this bank and reuse it later again (with the song you created it for). You can use it as a total replacement for AWECP. Everything you can do with AWECP, you can do with AWEVBANK (except Qsound-setting, but who needs Qsound anyway ?). It also allows you to change your patches on the fly while you are making your songs with a notation software.

The User Interface

Keyboard shortcuts

General Information

Technical Information

Revision History

Registration information

Copyright Information


Registration Information

The unregistered version has a limitation of 5 instruments for one Virtual-Bank. Also the information of uploaded userbanks is not saved in the Virtual Bank, meaning that the next time you load the Virtual Bank you have to load those userbanks again manually.

If you want to register and overcome the limitations just follow the things said in the program. Your registration will work also for all future versions of this program.

You can send bugs, things that you think should be changed, said etc. to MEGOTA@PING.AT.


Copyright Information

AWEVBANK.EXE, AWEVHELP.DLL, MULITAG.VBX and VB3D.VBX are copyrighted by me (Markus Eisenstoeck). You are not allowed to use AWEVHELP.DLL, MULITAG.VBX and VB3D.VBX for your own programs. You can copy and spread the unregistered version (Shareware). If you upload this package to any ftp-server, please upload the AWVBK110.ZIP file. You are not allowed to give anybody a copy that has been registered by you. Also you cant make me liable for any damage AWEVBANK.EXE could possible do on your computer.


The instrument number the referenced instrument is loaded to.


Names of the SBK-files which host the referenced instruments.


The original index of the instrument in the SBK.


Here you can change the directory. Right clicking allows you to change the drive or to switch to one of the default-directories.


Lists all the SBKs and Virtual Bank-files (AWB) in the current directory. Right clicking allows you to view the fileinfo or edit it with VIENNA (if installed)


All the instruments in the current SBK. Right clicking gives you following options:

- Add all selected entries with upcounting index

- Add all selected entries with the original index

- Replace entries selected in the Virtual Bank


Display of all the instruments in the current Virtual Bank. Right clicking gives you following options:

- Upload the bank into the current physical bank

- Delete all selected instruments

- Set the instrument-index of the current instrument


Name of the instrument.


Bankmanager

With the Bankmanager you can create and edit your own Virtual Banks. All action is done with right-clicking into the listboxes.


Options

In the Options-section you can change some basic options of how AWEVBANK works with the soundcard and what stuff it saves and load in Virtual Banks.


Here you can select the current physical bank. All uploading go in this bank. The combo also displays the filename of the userbank (if it has one). This setting is saved in your Virtual Bank, so that uploadings are done into the same bank the next time.


AWE32

In the AWE32-section you can change some physical settings of the AWE32 including the bank to upload to, loading userbanks, clear all userbanks etc.


Displays all the instruments in the current bank. Right clicking you can:

- Upload the Virtual Bank.

- Refresh the bank to its original state (before uploading)

- Clear banks (only userbanks)

- Load SBKs into userbanks


Displays the memory state of your AWE.


Here you can select the FX-types who should be in effect. This setting is saved in your Virtual Bank. So the next time you have the same FX working.


Checking this, a bank uploaded automatically when you load it


All changes are automatically uploaded into the AWE.


The current physical bank is refreshed before any uploading into it.


Only instruments who are actually used are displayed in the bank-listbox.


Userbank-information is saved into the Virtual Banks. So you got the same userbanks when you load your Bank the next time.


Change the default paths for your SBKs and Virtual Banks.


General Information

If you link the AWB extension to AWEVBANK.EXE, than you can load your Virtual Banks just by clicking on them in the Filemanager (or Explorer for all you Windows95 maniacs).

I have also found some SBKs (only 2) that do not show any instrument-list with AWEVBANK. You can correct this by loading the SBK with VIENNA and save it again.

If you change an instrument and you need to change the program-number in your sequencer to hear the result, you can try to add following line to the [SETTINGS]-section in AWEVBANK.INI:

DoubleUpload=-1

This will load all samples twice (means also doubling the loading time). But it my correct the problem described above.


Technical Information

AWEVBANK uses the same way to access AWEMAN.DLL like AWECP.EXE. This has the advantage that you can use it while you are running other MIDI-Software. But you can not run it at the same time with AWECP.EXE.


Revision History

Changes in V1.01:

- Corrected bug when loading virtual banks, which had only one instrument

- Corrected bug with cancel button in the registration-reminder

- Corrected bug when loading instruments with their original index

Changes in V1.10:

- corrected bug when exiting with dirty file

- There's no program-change required any more when you load new patches !

- Double-clicking an entry in the instrument-list does now add or replace, depending

on the selection-state in the Virtual Bank

Changes in V1.10:

- added new keyboard-shortcuts for some functions

- the SBK-listbox now also recognizes AWB-files. That means that you can use any AWB-file as you would use a SBK-file. With that functionality you can create your own libraries of instruments (e.g. Classic, Tecno) and use them without searching all your SBKs.

- corrected some spelling-mistakes in the helpfile.

- double-upload feature for Windows95

- default-paths in the directory-popup


Keyboard Shortcuts

CTRL-N	Create new Virtual Bank

CTRL-O	Open existing Virtual Bank

CTRL-S	Save current bank

CTRL-M	Start Creative-Mixer

CTRL-P	Start Creative-Controlpanel

CTRL-R	Register your application

CTRL-B	Select all/no entries in the Virtual Bank

CTRL-I	Select all/no entries in the instrument-list

CTRL-U	Upload the Virtual Bank to the AWE

CTRL-L	Load SBK-file

ENTER	Add/Replace all entries in in instrument-list (same as double-click)

CTRL-0 - CTRL-9	Switch to physical bank n