Help Tutorial

This tutorial uses the files MY_MIDI.MID and My_DLS.DLS. They should be located <<where>> or you can obtain them from the Beatnik web site at www.beatnik.com.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do the following:

Creating a XMF file

  1. Launch MSB and import the My_Midi.mid and My_dls.dls files by clicking the Add button in the Source Files panel, navigating to where the files are located, and then hold Ctrl while you click to select each file, then click Open.
  2. If needed, open the XMF panel, by clicking the XMF Target List Toggle button.
  3. Set Soundbank assignments for tracks in your MIDI file by clicking the blue button in the "SMF Track bank assignment" column next to the MIDI file to display the Track Bank Mapping Editor dialog box. The bank assignment column is under the icon .
  4. Choose DLS from the Bank Mapping pull-down list for each of the voice tracks, and click OK to close the dialog box. (Leave the rest of the tracks alone.)
  5. In the XMF Targets panel, click the Add button
  6. to create a new XMF target.
  7. Select the target in the XMF Target panel, then in the Source Files panel, click the button in the "add to XMF target" column next to each file name to add them to your target.
  8. Audition your XMF by selecting the XMF target and clicking the blue button
  9. in the Audition column . Verify that you hear the custom sample (vocals) as well as regular MIDI instruments.
  10. You can enter metadata for any part of your XMF file at this point. Click on the blue or green buttons
  11. or in the Metadata column to do this.
  12. Optionally, you can set a MIDI file to autostart, by clicking but in this example since you only have one MIDI file, you don't need to.
  13. To encrypt a file, first set up an encryption key by clicking the blue button
  14. in the encryption key column , and entering a key. Verify that some parts of your file have been encrypted by clicking blue button in the Encryption column . (This will turn the button green, indicating that it is encrypted.)
  15. Export your XMF by right-clicking the Target and selecting Export XMF Target 1, then choose a name and location and click Save.