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(Mac OS)
Beatnik has verified compatibility with Vision DSP version 4.5.
Setting Up
Install MIDI linking software on your computer, following the supplied installation instructions. We support the Open Music System (OMS), which can be downloaded from the Web. OMS is available at: http://www.opcode.com/downloads/ For best results, make sure to get version 2.1 or greater. If this site is inaccessible, do a Web search using your favorite search engine. Install Vision DSP on your computer, following the supplied installation instructions. Restart your computer. This will enable the MIDI linking software, so that Vision and the Beatnik Editor can detect it. Launch the Beatnik Editor. Always launch the Beatnik Editor before Vision. Otherwise Vision won't detect the Beatnik Editor at the other end of the linking utility. In the Beatnik Editor, select the linking utility as your MIDI input source. Go to the Edit menu and select the Preferences... command, then in the Preferences dialog box select OMS as your MIDI input source. If OMS prompts you to turn off AppleTalk, answer OK. AppleTalk is known to interfere with MIDI, and can cause both Vision and the Beatnik Editor to hang. In the Beatnik Editor, make sure you have one or more Session windows open. If you want visual linking, click on the Instruments tab in a Session window. Launch Vision Working with Vision and the Beatnik Editor
Remember: Always launch the Beatnik Editor first.
Launch the Beatnik Editor. Launching the Beatnik Editor first ensures that Vision will be able to find it when Vision starts up. Launch Vision. In Vision, open your sequence. Set up your Tracks to play back on the Beatnik Editor MIDI synthesizer. Highlight any track in the Song window, then click in the Instrument column and select Beatnik-X (where X is the MIDI channel number to which you want to assign the track). Note: To access instruments in Beatnik Editor Banks 1 or 2, you'll have to enter MIDI Bank Select events in the Event List (see next section). If you enter Program (patch) Change events in the Song window without any Bank Select to move to Bank 1 or 2, Vision will only access the Beatnik Editor's Bank 0. Verify that the link is working. MIDI events on MIDI channel 1 are visually linked to the Beatnik Editor. This gives you an easy way to verify that the link is working: Just send a Program (patch) Change from Vision on channel 1, and look at the Beatnik Editor to see whether that same patch number is highlighted in the Instruments tab of the current Session window. Inserting MIDI Bank Select and Program Change (Patch Change) Events Into Your Sequence
In order for you to be able to export a MIDI file from Vision, import it into the Beatnik Editor, and convert it to an RMF file that plays the same MIDI Instruments every time, you'll have to insert Bank Selects and Program Changes into your tracks' MIDI event lists. This is especially important if you're using Instruments that you've created in the Beatnik Editor.
Note: To access instruments in Beatnik Editor Banks 1 or 2, you'll have to enter MIDI Bank Select events in the Event List. If you enter Program (patch) Change events in the Song window without any Bank Select to move to Bank 1 or 2, Vision will only access the Beatnik Editor's Bank 0. Open the Event List window. Go to the Windows menu and select the List command. In the Event List window, insert a Bank Select / Program Change event. Click and hold on the Insert button, then select Patch from the pop-up menu: A new Bank Select / Program Change event will appear in the list. Click on the first column and type in the time at which you want the Bank Select / Program Change event to occur - usually the very start: Click on the far right column, and then select B0 PC from the pop-up menu: Click on the number after B0, and then type in the number of the Bank you want to use: Use Bank 0, 1, or 2: Bank 0: General MIDI Melodic Instruments (on channel 10: General MIDI Percussion Instruments) Bank 1: Beatnik Special Melodic Instruments (on channel 10: Beatnik Special Percussion) Bank 2: Custom Melodic Instruments (on channel 10: Custom Percussion Instruments Click on the number after PC and enter the program number of the Beatnik Instrument you want to use: Tips: Save your work often Remember that to ensure consistency of sound, your playback settings should match the Event List. Moving Your Sequence Into the Beatnik Editor and the RMF Format
When you're finished inserting all your Bank and Patch changes, and your notes are all sounding the way you want them, save your sequence as a Standard MIDI File. Then, in the Beatnik Editor, Import that MIDI file into a Session window (or just drag it into the Songs tab of a Session window ), Play the song as a check, and finally export it as an RMF file.

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