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=== 4.1.Select Voices ===
The first choice of the voice menu is 'Select Voices'. This function allows you to select instruments (voices) with their corresponding start volumes for the track. First make your choice for which sound chip you want to select the voices. You will then receive a table with numbers from 1 to 16 (these are the numbers that you have to put in the patterns behind the 'I'). This table contains the instruments that will be saved in the piece of music. You can go through this table with the cursor keys. If you press the space now, you will enter the voicebanks. These voicebanks are filled with the standard instruments that MoonBlaster has on board. With [CTRL] + cursor left / right you can walk through the voice banks. The last column of the voicebanks covers the 'Own Voice' list. For more information on the own voices, see Section 4.3 - Create Own Voice. When you have found the right instrument, press the space bar and return to the instrument table. With [ESC] you can also leave the voice banks, but you will not choose an instrument. You can thus put an instrument at any place. You can use these chosen instruments for instrument change (see chapter 3) or for starting instruments. The initial volumes of the instruments (these are located behind the instruments in the instrument table) are changed with the cursor left (decrease volume) or the cursor right (increase volume).
The MSX-MUSIC can only play a software voice at the same time. This means that only one instrument can be used as a starting instrument without a '*' sign. If there are several, MoonBlaster takes the software instrument on the highest channel.
=== 4.3.Create Own Voice ===
This option allows you to design your own software voices. These voices are stored in the song under the name "OWN VOICE" with a song or they can be written to disk (F5 key), with a number of 1 (voice) or 16 (voice bank) at the same time.
Note: if you have changed a particular voice, it will only become part of the song
companion if you choose it again with Select Voices.
==== Existing voice edits ====
If you have a certain Own Voice and press the F4 key, you can select a MoonBlaster instrument and copy it to the Own Voice data. You can walk through the voice banks with the [CTRL] and cursors left / right. Use the space to copy the chosen instrument to Own Voice. This makes it easy to customize a MoonBlaster instrument to your own taste. The instruments can be listened to during the compilation via the MSX keyboard, the Philips keyboard for the NMS 1205 or one of the following MIDI Interfaces: 1205-MIDI, MSX-MIDI or Fac Midi-Interface. These can be selected with the F3 key and the [M] key for the correct MIDI interface. With F1 / F2 you can lower or lower an octave. to increase.
==== Disc menu ====
You can also save Own Voices with the F5 key (Disc menu). For further explanation of the disc menu, please refer to the seventh chapter, which concerns the disc menu.
