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04.01 - Editing The Preferences


You now need to choose Edit Preferences from the pull-down menu in the File section and provide information about how you have set up and connected your Akai sampler.

There are 2 ports to set up for MIDI IN: One for receiving the Akai SysEx data and a second one for incoming music data sent by a connected MIDI keyboard or a second computer/Atari running a sequencer program. If you have a MIDI Merger's OUT connected to one of your Atari's MIDI INs, these two ports can actually be the same. The MIDI OUT port should be the one connected to your Akai.

Step through your available MIDI ports by clicking the [ > ]-buttons behind the port names. The amount of available ports varies depending on your connected extra hardware supported by MROS (like a MIDEX+) considered you have copied the corresponding MROS driver to your AUTO folder as explained above.

NOTE:

There are always MROS ports available. Choose these MROS ports at your own risk. They are virtual MIDI ports between multi-tasking Steinberg applications such as Cubase and Synthworks. I know little about MROS multi-tasking, so I can't tell what will happen, if you choose an MROS port. Allthough it is highly unlikely, but if a chosen MROS MIDI port should work out for you, please tell me about it in an email!

Enter the MIDI and SysEx channel as you chose them on your Akai sampler.

NOTE:

A feature I had forgotten to implement for a long time is to set the SysEx channel on the Akai to what you have entered in this very dialog. This is what the [Set!]-button is for. When you have saved the preferences, this SysEx channel is set on the Akai everytime you start SINGLE or PROGRAM mode.

You can choose whether AKAINOID shall listen to only the MIDI channel specified or if MIDI data coming in on the Music port should be rechannelised to the MIDI channel of the Akai program selected (which is important in PROGRAM Mode).

If you don't care for the sample dump statistics after a sample transfer, you can deselect this feature.

The nature of your MIDI network (especially when MIDI Merges are in between the Atari and the Akai) and running AKAINOID in an Atari emulator can significally slow down sample dumps, so the time it takes until the Atari receives an Akai confirmation of a received dump package via MIDI can exceed certain time limits (timeouts). You can increase these Timeouts in milliseconds if your sample dumps fail or there are too many lost packages (for me one lost package is one too many).

A customised test program called AKAINOID is generated on the Akai during initialisation of Sample Mode. It can be set up, so you can play back the sample in Sample Mode on one of the Akai's individual outs. This Akai program will be removed again from the Akai as soon as you leave SAMPLE Mode.

Furthermore I plan a MIDI controller knob on your master keyboartd to be set up for data entry - at least for suitable parameters of the sampler. You may however already set up the MIDI controller number by entering or learning. When you started the learning process clicking the button, move your controller knob as fast as you can. A split second after leaving the knob alone, your controller number should be filled into the Preferences dialog.

Close this dialog and confirm your changes by clicking [ OK ].