Welcome to version 0.99, the second release of my DW-8000 editor.

This version has loads of new goodies in it:

- Drop-down device lists for choosing MIDI in and out.

- A compressed main interface panel which manages to fit almost every 
control for the DW-8000 onto a standard VGA screen.

-A new keyboard-friendly (well, friendlier anyway) control of this same
interface (unfortunately, with that many sliders and buttons, using a
keyboard to work with it is NOT recommended regardless).

-A few general fixups that make life easier for everybody.

-PATCH PREVIEW!  All patch lists (whether file selection lists or lists of
patches in banks) are now live.  Single-clicking a file will dump it to the
Korg.  This preview takes a couple of seconds to transmit and does not at
all effect the patch already loaded into the editor.  This option is
individually controlled by in each preview-aware dialog box.  A convenient
way to listen to lots of patches is just start at the top of a file list and
use the arrow keys to move down through all of them.

-BANK MANIPULATION!  Two new commands in the file menu give you two brand-new
dialogs for working with 64-patch banks for the DW-8000.  File | Extract Bank
will let you take a given sysex bank and extract all of the individual 
patches as files for editing.  A single base filename is used (e.g. "MYBANK"
to which program numbers are mapped (MYBANK11.SYX, MYBANK12.SYX, etc.).
There is an option to create directories on the fly for banks.  There is no
specific format for bank files; as long as there is patch data in there, the
extraction procedure will find them, although with unusual files the 
program number mapping will not be quite correct.
The File | Create Bank dialog allows you to create banks with up to 64 
patches to be sent en masse via sysex.  The editor will do this for you, or
you can save the bank as a .SYX file to be sent by [insert favorite sequencer
here].  Since individual patches essentially lose any identity a filename
gave them, there is also an option to keep track of banks with bank lists.
Bank lists contain the names of all the individual files used in a bank.
The terminology is circular but the process is very powerful--play around 
with it a while.  The "transmit all" command, which in the worst case can
overwrite every single patch on your keyboard, has a built-in warning.  Go
crazy.  Unless you want to send patches via a sequencer, there's really no
reason to work with anything except bank lists.  The editor will read them
and send all the files referenced if you ask it to.

-Anything else that looks different but I've forgotten to mention.


Hope you like it.  I think this is a quality piece of software, so if you
use it, I wouldn't mind a little (eensy) bit of compensation in the form
of $$$ sent to me, but it is NOT shareware.  If you don't want to pay
you don't have to.  If you do, you can be assured of personal support 
and any suggestions you have will be implemented that much more quickly.

Enough ranting... download 0.99, and have a blast.

Anthony Ruggeri - aruggeri@phoenix.princeton.edu

201 Henry Hall
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544