Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Derek da Silva" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Is anybody actually writing a game? Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:16:01 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <8em6c2$m351@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <8eeo7j$dt54@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <+hmpFIAe2UD5EwAb@trsoft.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: usr1895-kno.cableinet.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 > I tried to put my own music VAB file together but couldn't really work > out how to set the midi file to pick out the instruments I wanted. > I tried banks 1 & 2 in the sequencer thinking that it would play 1&2 > from my VAB but it didn't. Is there some special method employed? > > P.S. Would this have anything to do with my SFX being in the same VAB. > > Thanks > -- > Tony Ross Each instrument in your VAB is supposed to be a seperate program. I've been using cakewalk, and it's the patch number which needs to be changed to select different instruments. Are the wrong instruments being played, or no instruments at all? If you have no luck, I'll build a v. simple vab and mid/seq as an example (if I can figure out how :-)) Derek