Encore Manual 5 v3

[Hotch]

Hi,

This is what I've been able to get done so far.

http://www.gvox.com/downloads58/Manuals ... l_v3.1.zip

[commnthings]

Hotch,

Please note that v3 still shows the version number 2009.1. This can be confusing.

Bob

[Hotch]

Thanks, I meant to change that and forgot. I'll change it now.

[q]

Hi,

This is what I've been able to get done so far.

http://www.gvox.com/downloads58/Manuals/Encore5Manual_v3.zip

Hotch, the link on Gvox's download page still download version 2009.1.

Is that intentional? Do you not want the v3 manual there yet?

http://www.gvox.com/downloads.php

http://www.gvox.com/downloads58/Manuals/Encore5Manual.zip

Also the downloads page contains numerous titles that look like they used to be links. Kinda confusing. They look like headers or section titles.

q

[Hotch]

HI q,

I forgot to change the link on this topic. I have edited the original post with the most recent, v3.1

[q]

HI q,

I forgot to change the link on this topic. I have edited the original post with the most recent, v3.1

OK. Thanks.

Again it helps us if you provide a general log of changes between v3.0 and v3.1.

q

P.S. How about making it easy to find all Gvox documentation, here on the forum. In many ways that would prove simpler than looking through the Gvox.com downloads page.

I started such a page in the Encore folder back in March 2009, but since it's not an announcement link or a sticky it gets burried rather quickly:

http://www.gvox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1764&p=9809

I'd also like to see a permanent post of forum tips, FAQs and issues. I started one two years ago here:

http://www.gvox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=47

It just needs to be cleaned up and elevated to a location where it's easily found by new forum members, again perhaps an announcement or sticky.

[polarbreeze]

Page 258 contains a table called "General MIDI Drum Map". This includes a column listing alphanumeric note designations (eg "A4"). Those note designations are not part of the General MIDI standard and in fact in many cases the designations shown in this table will be wrong - so the reader will be confused or misled. The table should list only MIDI numbers, which is what the table in the MIDI spec itself does.

[Doug Kerr]

Page 258 contains a table called "General MIDI Drum Map". This includes a column listing alphanumeric note designations (eg "A4"). Those note designations are not part of the General MIDI standard and in fact in many cases the designations shown in this table will be wrong - so the reader will be confused or misled. The table should list only MIDI numbers, which is what the table in the MIDI spec itself does.

The Drum Map dialog in Encore makes references to the note pitches associated with drum traps using that notation, and, in choosing a drum trap for a metronome click, one may enter the note in that notation (and the existing selection is displayed in that notation). So one might think that when the GM drum map is presented in Encore documentation, it would be helpful for it to identify the notes the same way they are identified in the program itself.

Certainly a GM drum map not associated specifically with Encore, perhaps in "Popular MIDI Illustrated", should not have that notation.

You have recently argued the for the pragmatic validity of the note/octave system used in Encore, resisting a proposal that it be made "customizable". (I know you have also argued for it to be disposed of entirely, which I think is your greater preference.) Were it customizable, I would be more sympathetic with the concern you expressed above, that the notation in the manual would not always be correct. In fact, in the context of Encore, it will (for the foreseeable future) be correct.

What would be desirable on that table is a note that calls attention to the fact that these references are in terms of the Encore convention so as not to (incorrectly, as you point out) imply that they are inherent in the "standard", or "universal".

Doug

[Denkster]

Hi beta testers,
Please read on in the closed forum.
http://www.gvox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2718#p15341

Eveline

[Doug Kerr]

Well, that is interesting that the Encore 5 manual, V3.2 has been released.

Thanks, Hotch.

Doug

[polarbreeze]

Well, that is interesting that the Encore 5 manual, V3.2 has been released.
Thanks, Hotch.
Doug

Where is it?

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, p,

Where is it?

Gvox Web site, Download page.

Doug

[polarbreeze]

Hi, p,

Where is it?

Gvox Web site, Download page.
Doug

Thanks. You'd think GVOX would have told us about is and given a link here...?

[Denkster]

The link to the manual is in the first post.

But here again:
Encore5 Manual.zip (Edition 3.2) (28 MB)
Encore5 Quick Start Guide.pdf (1 MB)

[polarbreeze]

The link to the manual is in the first post.

Umm, no it's not - that link leads nowhere. But anyway, the question is nearly 3 years old!