So here it is ... AweVBank 96 :)

This is Beta 1.
The program is fully functional, but will disable itself on 01. May 1996.

What do you need to run the program:
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* Windows 95/NT (maybe Win32s - but I think it only works with Win95/NT)
* AweMan32
  This DLL comes with the Win95 control-pannel from Creative.
  You have to set the paths accordingly, so that AweVBank can access it.
* The program works fine with the beta-sf2-drivers from Creative and should
  also work with the old ones.

Just unzip AweVBank96Beta1.zip into a directory and start AweVBank.


About the program:
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I planned to make a kind of Explorer for the Awe32. So all the things you can 
do in the explorer also work in AweVBank. This means that you can 
copy/paste patches, drag&drop them, move them, right-click them etc.

The tabs on the top give you access to all the banks on the Awe32. The first,
called 'Virtual Bank' shows all the patches that you uploaded 'virtual'. The 
others just show the patches in that bank.
A red mark means, that either there is a bank loaded, or that the patch has
been uploaded to the RAM.

All things you do are done automatically to the Awe32. So if you delete a patch
from the list or move it to another location, the changes are also done to the
Awe32. You do not need to make any 'Upload changes' or stuff like that.


About this Beta:
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Some things are currently not implemented:

* SF2 support
* Printing of patch-lists
* Editing of parameters for wave-files
* Dropping of SBK-files onto AweVBank
* Exporting of patch-lists for Cakewalk
* Online-Help
* Setup-program
* No SysEx-stuff
* things I haven't thought by now


About the new file-format:
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I changed the file-format to the new VBK because of the limitations of the old
INI-based format. You can use your old files via the 'Import AWB-files ...' command 
in the file-menu.


Pricing:
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The price for the final AweVBank 96 will be US $30.
If you've registered AweVBank 16-bit before the final release of AweVBank 96 you will 
have to pay NOTHING. So be quick !!


Contact the author:
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You can contact me via

megota@pc42-c603.uibk.ac.at
megota@ping.at



Markus Eisenstoeck / Megota Software