Category : Music and Digitized Voice
Archive   : BBDEMO.ZIP
Filename : D20.DOC

D20 Help File

Loading in the file D20 will setup Band-in-a-Box for the Roland
D10/D20/D5 multi-timbral synthesizers and the D110 multi-timbral module.

It will setup:
1. Drum #'s for the Roland D series synthesizers/modules.
2. Patch Map (assigned to factory settings of the D series).
3. Startup Patches and Channels in the Midi Settings Window.

The D series of synths and synth modules are 8 part multi-timbral
(8 instruments at once) plus drums.

To setup your D10/D110/D20/D5, do the following:

You should load in the appropriate D10,D110.DK etc file under the
MIDI pulldown menu (Load
Alternate Drum/Midi Set). Select MULTI-TIMBRAL on your synth so your synth
can receive all of the instruments being sent to it from Band-in-a-Box.
Parts 1 through 7 will be used while Drums will be received on the RHYTHM
part of your synth (MIDI channel 10). Part 8 will not be used.

At times you may detect some sounds being 'choked' or notes being cut off
while a style is playing.The reason for this is that the D10/D5/D20/D110 has
a certain amount of notes that can be played at once and the other is in the
way their sounds are made up. The sounds are made up of 'partials'.Some
sounds use 1 or 2 of these partials while others can have up to 4;the latter
being very complex sounds such as "Warm Bell". When too many of these
complex sounds are occurring at once,it's too much for your synth to handle
so it starts to get'choked'. There is also only a certain number of notes
that can be played at once so either of these two things can be happening.
The best solutions we can recommend are:
a) Mute an instrument such as Strings(usually 4 partial sounds),
b) Select alternative sounds that would be less of a problem.
or c) Look in your Roland Owners Manual for Partial Reserve.

Once you've loaded the D10,D100.DK files, you are ready to start having
fun with Band-in-a-Box!
Have Fun!