PSC - description of the new version of the music editor Pro Sound Creator 1.07

(c) KVA of E-mage



                  Pro Sound Creator v1.07



In PSC 1.07 the following was done:



1. 48 patterns (previously there were 32)
2. Selecting disk drives. Now for drives A and B it is used
    turbo loader, and for C and D - slow loader (#3d13), which gives
    the ability to use PSC in conjunction with a hard drive...



Patterns: 48
Positions: 100
Chanels: 3
Lenght of player: #0C21 ???? (I don't remember exactly)
Player's speed: average 4800 (maybe a little more)
Samples: 31
Ornaments: 31
Length of sample: 32
Length of ornament: 32
Quantity of internal commands: 8
Envelope mask: present


Management:



    In the main PSC menu, in addition to controlling the cursor with keys
~Q~, ~A~, ~O~, P~, and ~Space~, ~M~ there is a system of hot
keys:

CS+SS, CS+1 - exit to main menu



1. Main menu:



L - play pattern/compose
E - edit pattern/compose
D - disk option
N - position list
U - undo
S - setup
T-tools
I - instrument editor



SS+I,O,P - channels on/off
CS+L - loop set
CS+D - delay set
CS+I - current line
CS+N - position (parameter)
CS+S - pattern size (parameter)
CS+A - edit pattern/compose (parameter)
SS+J - pattern/compose mode
SS+K - screen mode
CS+Q -current sample
CS+W - current ornament
CS+E - current envelope
CS+R - current octave
CS+T - envelope set
CS+Y - current envelope



2. Disk option



N - file name
C - catalogue
L - load
S - save

W,E,R -instrument/sample/ornament mode



3. Editor



Z,S,X,D,C,V,G,B,H,N,J,M - notes
L - clear current line
K - release (RLS)
I - pause (PSE)
U - edit command
W - change current sample/ornament/
    volume/envelope
CS+W - clear current
       sample/ornament/volume/envelope
0 - change octave

Space - mark
SS+Space - clear mark
Y - copy block
SS+Y - clear block
SS+T/R - up/down block
SS+J - compose/pattern mode
SS+K - screen mode
SS+I,O,P - channels on/off


4. Instrument editor



CS+Q,A - sample/ornament line up/down
D - disk option



5. Decompiler



D - decompile


    Помимо горячих клавиш и QAOP в редакторе осуществлена полная
(даже   абсолютная)   поддержка   Kempston-mouse,   поэтому  вам
предоставляется   уникальная  возможность  поработать  в  крутом
редакторе  на  крутом девайсе. С управлением,perhaps everything is clear
It's time to move on to the most interesting part - the editor.  Process
editing is in many ways similar to the well-known method, for
with the exception of mouse support, text scrolling in one
interrupt and display mode in 17 lines.   Panel
horizontal editing contains 9 or 17 lines per
depending on the selected mode. Vertical working panel
can be conditionally divided into 6 parts: 1 - note number; 2 - frequency
for envelope and envelope type; 3 - Add noise (analogue of the same name
commands in Pro-tracker); 4 - channel A; 5 - channel B; 6 - channel C.
Channel structure: note, sample, ornament, volume. For example, L-D
0D020A - large octave D, sample 01, ornament 02, volume 0A.



    Moving through the text is carried out using cursors,
mouse or QAOP.  Actually for the extended keyboard QAOP
is clearly overkill, but since some work at 40
keys, we decided to support this type of keyboard, thereby
maintaining the universality of management, despite a number of emerging
bells and whistles.  Using the A key to scroll multiple times
makes it difficult to enter the corresponding value into sample, ornament or
volume.   In this case, to solve this problem you can
use two methods: set control type 1 in Setup
(control mode 1; instead of the  keyto enter value A
use the  key) or control mode 2 (control mode 2;
disables the  key, i.e. scroll text this way
only possible if the cursor is in the notes field).  Entering notes
carried out in a standard way, i.e. keys 0-8, octave,
Z-M - notes.  The exception is entering parameters for sample,
ornament and volume.  In the upper third of the screen in the right half
the values current sample, current ornament, current are displayed
volume, current octave, current envelope.  If the values
absent (horizontal line), when entering a note the change
will only happen in the notes field.  If there are values,
for example, in sample, together with the entered note in the sample field there will be
the corresponding parameter is entered, and everything else i.e. ornament,
volume will remain the same (provided that current ornament and
volume are empty).  You can work with everyone in a similar way.
parameters.  This system is on par with conventional value entry
allows you to significantly reduce the time spent on input
compositions.  Entering the value current sample, current ornament,
current volume is carried out with just one key  . For
To do this, you need to hover the cursor over the corresponding field and click
.  To clear the parameter, use the combination .
The  key can be used to clearvalues at the current cursor position,
 - command input, <К> - Release,  - Pause. Besides this
directly without leaving the editing mode you can
switch Edit compose/pattern with the combination  and mode
display . What remains, perhaps, is a selection, but here you can
do without explanations (see “hot keys” above)



    The editor has another upgrade that determines the input type
parameters in the sample and ornament fields. Because the number of samples in
editor #1F, then it is convenient to enter the right value using the 0-F keys,
and switch one with the R, T keys.  However, for those who
the system is unusual, they can work in a standard way, i.e.
enter values ​​one by one.  The current method is displayed in
Setup: Edit mode 1 and Edit mode 2 respectively. A few words
about the mouse.  When loading, the first key pressed on the mouse
will be used as .   In Disk options for
scrolling the list of files in the window in addition to icons and keys
CS+Q, CS+A, you can use the middle key while moving the mouse
up or down. Samples are expanded in the same way
and ornaments in the Instrument editor, and inserting or erasing
lines will occur at the cursor location.



Instrument editor.



    Structure: first column - tone, second - noise, third -
envelope, fourth - volume control, fifth - loop (unpainted
rectangle - cycle).  When using internal command
release exits the tool cycle, i.e. in one
You can make multiple loops on the instrument. Next field -
noise add (left - minus, right - plus), then the volume field,
tone add field (3 digits) and ornament field (2 digits noise and 2
note category (in semitones)).



                         Good luck!