Post by JohnG on Aug 27, 2012 10:49:43 GMT
Hi Barry,
It's quite straightforward ... if you know how!
First you have to change the track "Type" to WAV. You can see from the picture below that I've done this for track 1.
Just click where it says "MIDI" and select "WAVE".
It can be any unused track. Or a previously used WAV track.
This latter means we can insert a series of audio clips, where we want them, all in one audio track.
XGworks will automatically change the "Port" to the audio input port that you selected in the initial "System Setup" and the volume level to 127, full volume.
You can make it lower by changing the "Trns/Vol" (transpose (for MIDI) or volume (for audio)).
It assumes the sound is going to come from this input. No matter.
Next you will need to change the pan setting in the "Ch/Pan" column (MIDI channel or pan (for audio)) to what you require, from L7 through "C", for centre, to R7).
Set it to "C" for audio recorded in stereo.
Now we're ready to do the import.
Select the pencil tool from the menu bar at the top, then click and drag a line across in the track you've chosen.
In the picture, below, you'll see mine labelled (automatically) "Block 2".
It will also open a standard file select menu, as you can see, where you can select the wav file you want to import.
When you've selected and opened the file it will be inserted into XGworks but, almost certainly, not exactly where you want it.
From what I did above, it will start at the very beginning, 01:01:000.
If you're clever you could have drawn the line in the track starting from the correct measure.
However.
Change back to the arrow tool, from the tool bar, and drag the audio to the measure where you want the audio to begin.
This is still an approximate position, and we'll need to make it more precise, but you'll see I've dragged the block to measure five, where the vocal comes in.
To move it around precisely we need to open this track in List View and change the exact location of the start of the file.
To open the List View, we need to highlight the data in the track (the block should turn red) and select the second icon from the left in the Views block in the menu bar.
If you hover the mouse over the icons, when you come to the correct one it will say "Open List View". Click that.
Opening the List View should give you something like this:
On the left of this window you will see columns L1, L2 and L3.
These are measure, beat and tick. XGworks uses 480 ticks per quarter note.
On mine 0005:01:000. You can type new values into each of these fields and gradually fine tune them until the audio starts exactly where you want it to.
So it might end up, maybe, at 0005:02:037, as an example.
Lastly when you save the file, as you cannot embed audio in a standard MIDI file, you need to save it as an XGworks format file with embedded audio. As I've shown below. Then the audio file will automatically be loaded when the XWS file is opened.
Here's an example (compressed) of a Yamaha file with quite a bit of embedded audio. Hope you can still read it.
And that's it!
Hope it's comprehensible?
Have fun,
JohnG.
Copyright © John L Garside, August 2012.
It's quite straightforward ... if you know how!
First you have to change the track "Type" to WAV. You can see from the picture below that I've done this for track 1.
Just click where it says "MIDI" and select "WAVE".
It can be any unused track. Or a previously used WAV track.
This latter means we can insert a series of audio clips, where we want them, all in one audio track.
XGworks will automatically change the "Port" to the audio input port that you selected in the initial "System Setup" and the volume level to 127, full volume.
You can make it lower by changing the "Trns/Vol" (transpose (for MIDI) or volume (for audio)).
It assumes the sound is going to come from this input. No matter.
Next you will need to change the pan setting in the "Ch/Pan" column (MIDI channel or pan (for audio)) to what you require, from L7 through "C", for centre, to R7).
Set it to "C" for audio recorded in stereo.
Now we're ready to do the import.
Select the pencil tool from the menu bar at the top, then click and drag a line across in the track you've chosen.
In the picture, below, you'll see mine labelled (automatically) "Block 2".
It will also open a standard file select menu, as you can see, where you can select the wav file you want to import.
When you've selected and opened the file it will be inserted into XGworks but, almost certainly, not exactly where you want it.
From what I did above, it will start at the very beginning, 01:01:000.
If you're clever you could have drawn the line in the track starting from the correct measure.
However.
Change back to the arrow tool, from the tool bar, and drag the audio to the measure where you want the audio to begin.
This is still an approximate position, and we'll need to make it more precise, but you'll see I've dragged the block to measure five, where the vocal comes in.
To move it around precisely we need to open this track in List View and change the exact location of the start of the file.
To open the List View, we need to highlight the data in the track (the block should turn red) and select the second icon from the left in the Views block in the menu bar.
If you hover the mouse over the icons, when you come to the correct one it will say "Open List View". Click that.
Opening the List View should give you something like this:
On the left of this window you will see columns L1, L2 and L3.
These are measure, beat and tick. XGworks uses 480 ticks per quarter note.
On mine 0005:01:000. You can type new values into each of these fields and gradually fine tune them until the audio starts exactly where you want it to.
So it might end up, maybe, at 0005:02:037, as an example.
Lastly when you save the file, as you cannot embed audio in a standard MIDI file, you need to save it as an XGworks format file with embedded audio. As I've shown below. Then the audio file will automatically be loaded when the XWS file is opened.
Here's an example (compressed) of a Yamaha file with quite a bit of embedded audio. Hope you can still read it.
And that's it!
Hope it's comprehensible?
Have fun,
JohnG.
Copyright © John L Garside, August 2012.