KeyStage 1.x Tutorial 2: Instrument Presets — Transcript

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1. 0:04hello and welcome to the second tutorial
2. 0:06of key stage so in this story we're
3. 0:08going to talk about a very important
4. 0:09feature of key stage which are
5. 0:11instrument presets so instrument presets
6. 0:14are containers of instrument patches
7. 0:16which are placeholders for program
8. 0:19change and banks select messages and
9. 0:21this allows us to access the instruments
10. 0:24of any connected device or any connected
11. 0:27of mutual instruments by simply
12. 0:30selecting the patches from the lists
13. 0:32here now you realize that it says no
14. 0:34instrument here so because key search
15. 0:36does not have any instrument patches or
16. 0:38instrument presets so if I tap here
17. 0:41kisses tells me that there are no
18. 0:44instrument process which would like to
19. 0:45create a new one and assign it as the
20. 0:47default instrument instrument means
21. 0:49instrument preset here I tap yes so in
22. 0:53this story I were also using my North
23. 0:55electro five and I'm going to create an
24. 0:57instrument preset for North so I'm just
25. 0:59gonna name this as North so now you
26. 1:04realize that this name changed to North
27. 1:06okay so previously I was manually
28. 1:10choosing this program changer Bank
29. 1:11select numbers so I'm gonna first choose
30. 1:16an instrument so I'm gonna choose
31. 1:19program change three I actually know the
32. 1:21patch lists of North so this is electric
33. 1:27piano and I want to store this into this
34. 1:31instrument preset so I tap editor here
35. 1:34now I have an empty instrument preset I
36. 1:36first need to create a group so let's
37. 1:39create our first group a piano
38. 1:48all right we double tap on this epi now
39. 1:50to access it and I'm going to tap create
40. 1:52new patch now you realize that these
41. 1:54numbers automatically translated here so
42. 1:57the name of this patch you can see it
43. 2:00it's very tram I can name it anything I
44. 2:09want but I just want to be consistent
45. 2:10with the names in in North so now you
46. 2:14realize that the name of my part
47. 2:16automatically changed to the name of the
48. 2:18presets and if I tap here I have this
49. 2:23single group a piano and under it I have
50. 2:26this single patch world through so let's
51. 2:30create another one so I tap editor again
52. 2:32and this time I'm going to create
53. 2:33another group a group for organs and I
54. 2:41double tap and I create new patch now
55. 2:43I'm going to manually change the program
56. 2:45changes here so I'm gonna change it to
57. 2:4713 well later I'm gonna show you that I
58. 2:52don't still need to manually change this
59. 2:55program change and Bank select numbers
60. 2:57and look at the medium cementation
61. 2:58charts of all my north but there will be
62. 3:02much in much easier method to do that so
63. 3:05this is program tree in 13 and lower
64. 3:07banks of X 0 so this the name of this
65. 3:11patch is radio kink
66. 3:20and I created and if I go back now I can
67. 3:25access these patches instantaneously by
68. 3:30selecting them from business
69. 3:32[Music]
70. 3:38now if your MIDI controller and your
71. 3:41synthesizer are the same device like
72. 3:43here in north electro five there is a
73. 3:46much easier way to create patch scripts
74. 3:47now I tap preferences here and tap
75. 3:50external MIDI control I'm going to go
76. 3:52over the details of these menus in
77. 3:54another tutorial video but here let's
78. 3:56take a look at this external control I'm
79. 3:59gonna activate track input changes
80. 4:01parameters now if I change the
81. 4:04instruments of North from this knob you
82. 4:08can see that these program change and
83. 4:10Bank select numbers are automatically
84. 4:12changing so note actually sends these
85. 4:15instruments signals to this track and
86. 4:18this way I can easily change the
87. 4:21instrument I want and then assign it to
88. 4:23anything so here is another electric
89. 4:25piano I'm gonna create another patch for
90. 4:30this electric piano create a new patch
91. 4:32I'm going to name it
92. 4:43so this way I can quickly create patch
93. 4:49scripts of any connected instruments as
94. 4:51long as the instrument and the MIDI
95. 4:54controller are the same devices
96. 4:56[Music]
97. 5:03now there is a third and much easier way
98. 5:06to create instrument presets which
99. 5:08involves Cubase pad scripts so for those
100. 5:10of you who use Cubase who probably know
101. 5:13about this patch script files these are
102. 5:14text files that contains basically these
103. 5:17patch names and groups that allows
104. 5:19Cubase to access these hardware
105. 5:22instruments instrument presets so I
106. 5:24adopted key stage to read Cubase patch
107. 5:28scripts as well to quickly create full
108. 5:30instrument presets I'm gonna go to
109. 5:33Dropbox
110. 5:33I already stored a couple of Cubase pad
111. 5:37scripts here specifically one for north
112. 5:41you can import pad scripts from
113. 5:43internets some vendors create their own
114. 5:46pad scripts and also some people create
115. 5:49those path scripts and put it online and
116. 5:51you can find them over there this is one
117. 5:53of them so the pad script file looks
118. 5:56like that these parts are not important
119. 5:59see keysafe does not care about those
120. 6:01parts but here are the main information
121. 6:03so for example here is our bank one and
122. 6:08every patch name are written here so the
123. 6:12first column here corresponds to program
124. 6:14change numbers and the other two columns
125. 6:16corresponds to our bank select numbers
126. 6:18now we can see that these are all also
127. 6:22grouped into banks here so what I'm
128. 6:26going to do is just I'm gonna export
129. 6:28this pad script file and open it in key
130. 6:32stage so a new instrument is uploaded
131. 6:36would you like to create a new one or
132. 6:38change the existing instrument so I'm
133. 6:40gonna change the existing instruments
134. 6:43here is the instrument preset that I
135. 6:46just created I'm gonna select that and
136. 6:49here's the confirmation and there we go
137. 6:53now if I tap here I'm gonna see the full
138. 6:57list of instrument patches of my notes
139. 7:01so I can easily access everything from
140. 7:04here
141. 7:08if I go to the editor I can also see the
142. 7:11list here now we can change the order of
143. 7:14these groups or patches by simply
144. 7:17pressing and holding it and moving it up
145. 7:20and down or a couple of other ways you
146. 7:24can choose multiple of groups or patches
147. 7:28we can delete them you can move them
148. 7:31within the group or within the presets
149. 7:34or you can move those items let's cancel
150. 7:36and go into this Bank I can select
151. 7:40multiple of these patches and I can move
152. 7:43them to other locations like let's move
153. 7:46them into bank 1 so you can do all kinds
154. 7:51of editing in this instrument editor
155. 7:58okay we'll learn how to create
156. 8:00instrument patches and groups but
157. 8:03Eastern presets does also contain
158. 8:06parameters and we can create custom
159. 8:08parameters for instruments now again I
160. 8:11can tap this add parameter button here
161. 8:13and this allows me to choose between a
162. 8:15slider parameter or a switch parameter
163. 8:17let's create a slider parameter I'm just
164. 8:21gonna go ahead and show you the easiest
165. 8:23way to create parameters again when your
166. 8:26MIDI keyboard and your synthesizer are
167. 8:29physically the same device so these
168. 8:31controllers here on my North accesses
169. 8:33the parameters all my of the instrument
170. 8:36inside note and before I move any of
171. 8:39these sliders let's so let's move reverb
172. 8:41slider here you realize that this number
173. 8:44automatically changed to 102 so the
174. 8:48reverb parameters control change number
175. 8:50is 102 so I don't need to manually I
176. 8:53don't need to look at the media
177. 8:55implementation chart of north and take a
178. 8:57look at all parameters and manually
179. 9:00enter them here I can again
180. 9:02automatically do that here so any non
181. 9:05eighty controller that I tap or change
182. 9:07here on north the number is
183. 9:09automatically applied here so this is
184. 9:12reverb by the way this is only happens
185. 9:20when check input changes parameters is
186. 9:22on that's why I shall turn that on so I
187. 9:25can one by one create parameters switch
188. 9:29or slider parameters so let's create a
189. 9:31switch parameter here an on-off
190. 9:33parameter for example this is reverb on
191. 9:37and off so reverb on off
192. 9:48whenever I create an perimeter it's
193. 9:50added to this list when I turn this you
194. 10:04can see that this light also changes on
195. 10:08and off now suppose you created your
196. 10:11instrument preset and created all your
197. 10:14parameters and you want to store it
198. 10:15somewhere and also you want to share it
199. 10:17with other people now key stage has
200. 10:20Dropbox integration that allows you to
201. 10:24save or everything in Key Stage two
202. 10:27location in Dropbox to actually a folder
203. 10:29that it creates in the apps folder you
204. 10:32can backup your songs quick global
205. 10:34properties anything and also the
206. 10:36instrument presets are automatically
207. 10:38backed up in in the folder of key stage
208. 10:41anything that you created here so what
209. 10:43I'm going to do is I'm going to access
210. 10:46one of them the one one of the instances
211. 10:49are created for not now these Cubase
212. 10:52patch script files that Key Stage
213. 10:54creates contains some additional
214. 10:55information which are these parameter
215. 10:57numbers here and normal convinced patch
216. 11:00script files do not contain those
217. 11:02information so that's why I named this
218. 11:03as extended Cubase patch script files so
219. 11:06here's the one that I created for North
220. 11:08that I'm and I'm using actively so I'm
221. 11:11gonna export this into key stage and
222. 11:15show you the structure so I'm also gonna
223. 11:22replace this North now you realize that
224. 11:28all these parameters allow me to control
225. 11:32my North completely so even if I don't
226. 11:38have this controller in front of me I
227. 11:40can access everything from here and
228. 11:42everything can be saved here on every
229. 11:46part so for example here
230. 11:50[Music]
231. 11:54is not stored in one of the presses of
232. 11:56north
233. 12:00I can add a phaser effect here
234. 12:03[Music]
235. 12:06and any changes that I make are stored
236. 12:08in those parameters here automatically
237. 12:12so if I want to switch to something else
238. 12:15[Music]
239. 12:30hmm okay the five world a lower volume -
240. 12:36any changes that I make are automatic
241. 12:38distorts on these parameters
242. 12:41[Music]
243. 12:45so you don't need to actually store
244. 12:48these changes into north they are
245. 12:50already stored in this part here now
246. 12:53suppose you created this instrument with
247. 12:55all these parameter values and you want
248. 12:57to store it somewhere so that's where
249. 12:59the favorites comes into place so when I
250. 13:02tap this star button I can create a new
251. 13:05favorites so let's say my grants drink
252. 13:14and I add it here now we realize that
253. 13:17the name of the part now changed to my
254. 13:20grand string but whenever I change a
255. 13:22parameter here it's no longer my grand
256. 13:25string one of the effects is has changed
257. 13:27so then the name of the patch ap appears
258. 13:32on the on the parts but this allows me
259. 13:35to store these favorites and recall them
260. 13:39later on any part I tap the list here
261. 13:41and I tap my grande strings and you
262. 13:44realize that the instrument information
263. 13:46together with all the parameters are
264. 13:48recalled into this part
265. 13:54now there is one final thing the thing
266. 13:57that I want to talk about which is using
267. 14:00multiple instrument presets so in the
268. 14:02previous tutorial video you realize that
269. 14:04I was also using a software synthesizer
270. 14:06called sunrise err now I'm going to
271. 14:08demonstrate with another instrument
272. 14:10called Galileo so I'm gonna create
273. 14:12another part here choose my inputs and
274. 14:15there is Galileo here and again for
275. 14:19obvious reasons the channel is a
276. 14:21scientist so this is an organ simulator
277. 14:25but now if I create a part here it says
278. 14:29the instrument is north so I need to
279. 14:31create another instrument for Galileo
280. 14:33and change the instrument of this output
281. 14:37channel to Galileo
282. 14:39so let's first import a path script file
283. 14:43for Galileo this is another another one
284. 14:45that I created so I export it into key
285. 14:54stage now this I'm going to create a new
286. 14:57instrument and automatically sees
287. 15:00Galileo because that name is actually
288. 15:03contained in the Cubase batch script
289. 15:05file so I create so a new instrument is
290. 15:09created but this is still north so in
291. 15:12order to change that to Galileo I need
292. 15:14to go into a new tab which is called
293. 15:17MIDI connections now there are these
294. 15:20outputs MIDI alliances media license are
295. 15:23placeholders for actual MIDI MIDI
296. 15:26connections media output connections
297. 15:27with some additional information and one
298. 15:30of the additional informations is as you
299. 15:32can see here is the instrument so I'm
300. 15:35gonna choose the output for Galileo and
301. 15:38it says that the instrument is the
302. 15:40default instrument and if I go to
303. 15:43instrument presets here you can see that
304. 15:46the default instrument is north so if I
305. 15:49change this to Galileo and close it now
306. 15:54I realize that the instrument of any
307. 15:58part on this track is changed to Galileo
308. 16:01and now we have new parameters and a new
309. 16:04set of
310. 16:05[Music]
311. 16:08well I'm hearing both north and galia so
312. 16:11I'm gonna turn solo on so I can access
313. 16:16any instrument here as well as the
314. 16:24parameters so I can create as many
315. 16:28Eastern presets as I want and assign
316. 16:30them to different mini outputs so that I
317. 16:33can control any number of instruments
318. 16:35and access their instruments and
319. 16:37parameters from key stage