AWEToy

AWETOY is the SB32/AWE32 user's best friend, second only to a software sequencer in its functionality. 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.