BackupBand version 1.A -- Victims wanted
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BackupBand version 1.A -- Victims wanted
Get it at https://sourceforge.net/projects/backupband/files/
This update is all about remote control of BB. There are now 2 executables -- the regular BackupBand and the new BackupBandNoGui. The latter has no GUI, and is designed to be controlled entirely by an external MIDI controller, or another software program.
Read the updated manual, particularly the sections;
The master channel
A more complex controller setup
Remote control
There are also a couple new minor features, like a new panel just for playing songs. A panel for selecting instruments, a few new Misc commands that can be remotely controlled.
I'll update the sources after I get a few victims to try it out. Um, I mean beta-testers. We developers don't view endusers as laboratory rats. Honest. We see you more as cute, furry guinea pigs. This version shouldn't destroy your computer. But if it does, that's the excuse you need to buy that new computer you want.
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Re: BackupBand version 1.A -- Victims wanted
The proper terminology for a group of banjo players isn't a band.noedig wrote: community version called BanjoBand.
It's an inquisition.
Nobody expects the banjo inquisition! Our chief weaponry is bluegrass music, and a fanatical reverence for 3 fingered banjo players. TWO! Our two main weapons are bluegrass music, a fanatical reverence for 3 fingered banjo players, and a lack of a sense of humor. Oh bum!
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is that Sargeant Pooper's Loudly Farts and Craps His Depends BAND?
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Was the music store sold out of kazoos and slide whistles?I bought a banjo
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I already have a kazoo, but I would probably go for a slide whistle if I came across one.
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Since the code base has been significantly rewritten, there are too many changes to the old code base to bother updating. Delete your old version and just work with the new one.
Let the Hammond B3 clone wars begin.
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Re: BackupBand version 1.A -- Victims wanted
Are the .cpm files compressed audio with the text file describing the instrument (i.e. akin to sfz instrument file)?
How would I go about creating my own BB instrument file in lieu of using an 'External' playback device (i.e. Qsampler and/or Carla host)?
Thanks,
Greg
Re: BackupBand version 1.A -- Victims wanted
Yep. The .cmp file contains only the waveform data (compressed), and specifies the samplerate, loop points, and if the waveform is stereo. That's it.MusicMan74 wrote: Are the .cpm files compressed audio with the text file describing the instrument (i.e. akin to sfz instrument file)?
Assigning all the waves to a MIDI note range, setting volume, specifying what wave cuts off another wave, whether there's a separate sample played for MIDI note off (versus note on), etc are done in the .txt file.
Read "make_a_kit.htm" of the docs for a tutorial on making/adding your own instruments. (The tutorial is applicable to instruments other than only drum kits).
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Re: BackupBand version 1.A -- Victims wanted
Reading the documentation to wrap my head around the specifics....
What I see in the 'Acoustic.txt' is confusing:
28 32 offset=3630
34 36 offset=4270
40 42 offset=2505
...
...
Is 1st number the filename (without ext), and does it implicitly describe the root note pitch?
Is 2nd number is midi high note(?): how does '34.cmp' know to play notes 33-36? how does '40.cmp' know to play notes 37-42? the ordering of the file?
I'd appreciate a bit more clarification.
TIA,
Greg
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Yep. You got it.MusicMan74 wrote: Is 1st number the filename (without ext), and does it implicitly describe the root note pitch?
Is 2nd number is midi high note(?)
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28 32
34 36
40 42
This is a "shorthand version" of the more explicit longhand version of
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NAME=28 NOTE=28 HIGH=32
NAME=34 NOTE=34 HIGH=36
NAME=40 NOTE=40 HIGH=42
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