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Sound Edge Setup

ABOUT THE DRIVER AND MIDI MAPPER

In order for Windows to work with MIDI, a driver and MIDI mapper are required. The Yamaha

Sound Edge software installation procedure automatically places the YAMAHA OPL4 Driver in

the Control Panel and the YAMAHA OPL4 MIDI map into the MIDI Mapper.

When you click to open the driver in the Windows Main group, you can see three different

drivers: OPTi External MIDI Driver, YAMAHA Audio Device Driver and YAMAHA OPL4 Driver.

¢If you removed a previous sound card before installing the Sound Edge, delete any accompanying driver

programs.

Setting Up the YAMAHA OPL4 Driver

This driver lets you assign instrument voices from the ROM (AWM wave table), FM tone

generator or RAM (sampled sounds) to each of the 16 MIDI channels.

1. Double click the [Control Panel] icon in the Main group. The following window appears.

2. Double click the [YAMAHA OPL4 Driver] icon. The OPL4 Drive Panel dialog box appears.

bar up and down to change

the volume balance between

the PCM (ROM/RAM) and

FM sounds.

Wave Boost: Click this box

to automatically boost the

melody part by 8dB and the

rhythm part by 10dB.

Auto Reset: Click this box to

reset MIDI data

transmission/reception every

time software playback stops

or pauses.

Fast Damp: Click this box to

cut off the last portion of

notes in order to prevent

notes from interfering with

proper note on of

subsequent notes. Note on/

off data transmission and

reception may sometimes be

disrupted when using a

computer with a slow CPU.

Type of Tone Generation

ROM: GM compatible AWM

wave table.

FM: 128 musical instrument

voices using high quality 2-

operator FM tone

generation.

RAM: WAV files which can

be played on a musical

scale. (See SampleEdit on

pages 47 and 57.)

Ch.: Check the appropriate

box beside each MIDI

channel number to select

the type of tone generation

you want.

ALL ON/OFF: Click one of

these once to select an

entire column of the desired

type of tone generation.

Balance: Move the scroll

£In the default setting all MIDI channels are assigned to “ROM” (the AWM wave table).

3. After choosing your settings, click [OK]. Click [Cancel] to cancel the settings.

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