Miditemp MP 22-W - Chapter VI - Wave Player; General; Wave Formats; WAV Format

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CHAPTER VI - Wave Player
1. General
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Wave files must have been saved in the uncompressed formats WAV or AIFF.
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Whenever a Wave file comes on a floppy disk it will be loaded as a whole into the
internal memory as the floppy disk drive is not fast enough to pre-load the data in time.
Using a Waveplayer with a floppy drive disk should only be performed in special
applications, where only a few and short Waves are needed (e.g. to produce a
metronome click).
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If you want to use many Waves you should have a non-/removable hard disc drive and
at least 4 Mbyte RAM.
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From each Wave file only the first 32-64 KB will be loaded into memory. Whenever you
play a Wave (on the numeric keys on the Remote Control or via MIDI) these blocks are
played back immediately while the next ones will be loaded. Watch out for your total
memory space, as all needed Waves must be pre-loaded.
2. Wave Formats
2.1 WAV format
The format “WAV“ by Microsoft is the sound file format mostly used on the PC market. The
files must be uncompressed.
2.2 AIF format
The format AIF resp. “AIFF“ (Audio interchange File Format) is also widely used by
MACintosh Computers and PCs and will be recognized and loaded by the Wave Player. As for WAV,
it is important the file is not compressed in any way.
3. Wave banks
There are eight Wave Banks WVA to WVH (Bank 121-128). Each Bank contains up to 128
Waves, each assigned to a single MIDI note number. This theoretically allows for 1024 different
Waves per assignment.
The currently active Bank (normally WVA) will be displayed as soon as you switch to Wave
Mode using
. You can simply set the Bank pressing in Wave Mode. Only one Bank is
active at any one time.
Since OS version 3.3 Bank 128 (WVH) has a special function: The Wave-to-Note
assignments set in that Bank will be linked with the Song Program, having the effect after switching
to another Song you will have a completely different set of Wave files at your disposal, that are
specially dedicated for this Song.