* From "Simon Haze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cheers tyler,
What you say does make sense, A LOT of sense actually.
Thanks for that....I now have something else to go on.
Take it easy, Haze
-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Hanel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08 October 1999 12:33
Subject: Re: track copying nightmare!
>* From Tyler Hanel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>At 09:24 AM 10/7/99 +0100, you wrote:
>>* From "Simon Haze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>Greetings.
>>Does anyone have a solution to the following...
>>If I copy a track from one section to another (or to another tune
entirely)
>>I cannot modify the copy in anyway as it updates all other copies at the
>>same time!
>>I'm hoping that I'm doing something wrong here as it's really starting to
>>piss me off and, as usual, the manual is next to useless on the subject.
>>Take it easy, Haze
>
>This has all been discussed before, but as it's probably the most common
>problem people have with the RM1X, it bears repeating.
>
> To use the RM1X effectively, you really need to understand the whole
>naming convention/heirarchy. In the rm1x you have Styles (the 60 preset
>styles and 50 user ones) that are each made of 16 Sections (which can be up
>to 256 bars long). Each section is in turn made of 16 Tracks. Now the
>confusing part: A track is not necessarily a collection of midi notes and
>cc messages. Instead it's a 'space' where Information about what voice to
>use, what PHRASE to play, and what midi effects to use. A PHRASE is the
>basic unit of midi data on the RM1X. If you go to the main screen for the
>Style you are working on (the screen with the Style's name on it) and press
>the Pattern Mode key one more time, you'll be in what's called the pattern
>patch screen. Here you can see the 16 Tracks, and what Phrases are filled
>in their slots (if any). Change Sections, and you'll see the Phrases that
>fill the Tracks that make up that New section. Now, when you use the Copy
>Section job, The RM1X merely duplicates the Phrase patching information of
>the Section that is being copied into the New section. For example: If your
>section A has Phrase US001 on track 1 and Phrase US002 on track 2, and you
>copy Section A to section F, Section F will ALSO have Phrase US001 on track
>1 and Phrase US002 on track 2. If you make a change to any of the PHRASES
>(which you do when you record on a track) Section A will have the same
>changes, as it's made up of the exact same Phrases. What you need to do
>then, If you want to copy a section and have it have identical, but
>seperate (new numbers) Phrases, is to copy each phrase to a new phrase, and
>then put the new phrases in the correct tracks. In our example, you could
>copy phrase US001 to phrase US011 and Phrase US002 to Phrase US012 and then
>put Phrase US011 In Track one of Section F and put Phrase US012 in Track
>Two of Section F. You'd then have to sections that sounded the same, but
>were made up of different phrases. This is kind of a pain in the ass,
>though, so it's nice that there is an easier way. Use the "Split" function
>and to split off a full length section (4 bars, for example) to the new
>Section. If, in our example, Section A is 8 bars long, and has Phrases on
>10 different tracks, and you wanted to make an editable duplicate of it on
>section F, just switch to section A, use the Split button, Set the start
>measure to 001, the end measure to 008, and the split to Section to F.
>Press "Do" et voila! a new section, Identical, but Different. Seperate but
>Equal ;)
>
>It seems kind of wierd when you first are checking it out, but once you
>learn it you realize that there are a lot of neat things you can do using
>the patch screen and with the basic unit of data being the phrase.
>
>I hope this all was intellegible and uh keep having fun with your RM1X (I
>know I'm having tons of fun with mine)
>
>Tyler
>
>ce
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