AWETOY is the SB32/AWE32 user's best friend, second only to a software sequencer in its functionality.
AWETOY can be used to change sound font banks and set and preview instruments as well, but perhaps its most important function is that it can behave as a filter that connects your midi keyboard to your software sequencer. Use a virtual midi driver such as midimux or mrouter. Then tie the output of your midi keyboard to the input of
AWETOY, and the output of
AWETOY to the one of the inputs on your sequencer. The functionality of
AWETOY is described by the "tab", but before we go to the TAB functions, let's discuss the controls.
AWETOY, like any good instrument, provides many interactive controls in the form of dials, Sliders and push-button arrows. You might be thinking: that's nice, but mouse controlled sliders are no match for analog sliders. Think again. The default slider increment or decrement (performed by left mouse-clicking (LMC) to either the right or left of the slider bar) can be set to other than the default value of one. By using ALT-LMC, CTRL-LMC, SHIFT-LMC, you can set the DELTA value to a preset that you store in
AWETOY.INI. The defaults are 2,5 and 12. This makes the sliders very customizable. Now, onto the tabs.
Keyboard: set the instrument, bank and global MIDI channel that you want to use. Set special effects such as chorus, reverb and volume. You can also do a pitch bend and set the note velocity. I find the use of the computer keyboard mapping to MIDI notes to be very handy for previewing instruments: I can preview instruments without having to reach over to the MIDI keyboard. There is even a key range split feature allowing one split with two ranges!
MIDI fx: this is an absolutely incredible feature. Many of these features are available only in high-priced synthesizers or, perhaps, in some software sequencers. There are three key options.
Pseudo-Echo: MIDI echo using multiple output channels.
