One Man Band Originals 10.2

One Man Band Originals 10.2 is a program able to change all (piano, synthesizer) keyboards into arranger keyboards with real time chords recognition, which can allows you to make complete MIDI music-arrangements with just simple drag and drop operations.

It utilises standard style files compatible with one used in Yamaha PSR, DGX and Tyros arranger keyboards. It is able to play the thousands of Yamaha styles that are available on internet and it can create styles that can be played on a Yamaha keyboard. The sound quality produced with One Man Band depends largely on the quality of the synthesizers that are used.

Professional live musicians use OMB to build a high quality arranger setup with features that are not available in the best arranger keyboards. Connect a master keyboard with 88 keys. Plug-in DXi and VSTi softsynths with incredible real sounding instruments. You will have the presets of up to 3600 songs at your fingertips including text with chords and lyrics or even a scrolling display of the score. When a new style is being loaded the current style will continue playing until the loading is complete and then plays the new style without an interruption. The presets may include a wave/mp3 intro or play a multimedia file as accompaniment instead of a style. Karaoke files will be displayed with text in large font. An editor to create Karaoke files is included. A large number of chord recognition methods is available, also for MIDI guitars, MIDI accordions and MIDI Pedals. In full keyboard mode you can play on the entire keyboard and use a footswitch for chordfixation to indicate when chords should be recognised from the keyboard for the automatic-accompaniment and when not.

Studio musicians are using OMB as a pre-production softwaretool. In the arranger and song window they can quickly try ideas with a lot of different styles, variations and chord sequences. OMB is both DXi and VSTi host and supports ASIO drivers. A complete sequencer for editing MIDI files is included too. All detailed event editing is done in easy eventslists and pianorolls. The result can be saved in a MIDI-file for further operations elsewhere. Listen to a composition made mainly with OMB by Philippe Perelman: Elle t'emporte.

Home musicians are using OMB for improving the sound of their arranger keyboards or to provide their digital piano or synthesizer with real-time auto-accompaniment. Load styles directly from the hard drive of your PC. Use the style maker for "tweaking" of styles and for making them sound better. Make a style from a MIDI file. Make a collection of style-tracks and use them in your uniquely mixed styles. Absolute beginners will use the "PC Keyboard 1" user-interface in OMB for playing melody and chords without a MIDI keyboard controller. Play duets, one plays the auto-accompaniment chords and variation changes with the mouse and the other one plays the melody on the PC keyboard.

Major Features:

1. Compatibility
   • Windows 98/2000/NT/Me/XG/Vista (does not work with Chinese, Japanese and Korean laguage)
   • Plays all Yamaha styles (live and sequenced)
   • Automatic XG to GM conversion (in GM mode)
   • Reads and writes MIDI files, including XF chords.
   • Plays and creates Karaoke files
   • Hosts DXi and VSTi soft synths with support for ASIO drivers.
   • Supports Cakewalk .INS files for browsing instrumentbanks
   • Synchronises with other arrangers and sequencers thru MIDI clocks, both as master (sending clocks) and as slave (receiving clocks)
2. Playing Live
   • Store all the presets to play a particular song (style, tempo, multivoice, etc.) and reactivate them with a single key stroke.
   • Accompaniment continues to play while a new style is loaded (switch without a glitch).
   • Full fingered chord recognition for 34 chord types.
   • Single finger chord recognition for major, minor and 7th chords.
   • Chord recognition for slash chords e.g C/E.
   • Free Form chord recognition allows for any keycombination, independant from existing chords.
   • Control the tempo with a modulation wheel or volume pedal.
   • Full keyboard chord recognition with chord fixation pedal.
   • Play bass runs in the chord section.
   • Play chords with a set of MIDI pedals, a MIDI guitar or a MIDI accordion.
   • Supports vocal harmonizers.
   • 2 automatic harmonies for melody voices (close harmony and wide harmony).
   • Up to 4 instruments can be mixed for melody voices.
   • Enter commands for variation, tempo and volume changes, loading styles etc. using a MIDI keyboard controller.
   • On-screen display of the special functions of the MIDI keyboard controller. Including browsing thru style directories.
   • Switches for style variations (fill in A etc.) can be assigned to any key, slider, knob, button, wheel or pedal that sends MIDI signals or to PC-keyboard keys.
   • Record your real time performance in a MIDI file.
3. Sequencing
   • Create accompaniment sequences (chords and directives) with the "drag and drop operated" arranger window.
   • Import melody and chords from MIDI files.
   • Add melody in real time or "drag and drop" notes on staff
   • Record chord sequences from your keyboard in the song window
   • Comprehensive sequencer for standard MIDI files
   • Detailed editing in eventslist and pianoroll
   • Add time dependend lyrics in real time to a MIDI file and create a karaoke file
4. Style creating
   • Edit all the style parameters
   • A style programming language to make modifications to styles in batch.
   • A mixer window with sliders for rapid style tweaking
   • Record style tracks
   • Record live (e.g. wahwah) effects with the mixer window in styles and songs
   • Convert MIDI files to styles.
   • Export and import style tracks to produce "morphed" styles
   • Export and import style parts to produce "medley" styles containing variations of different styles
   • A drumset conversion tool
   • Apply random velocity to introduce more variety in styles
   • Detailed editing on style tracks in eventslist and pianoroll

Enhancements:

• Selectable fonts in Song window and Karaoke window.
• Fix for the bug that made it impossible to load styles in the Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean version of Windows.
• Fix for recording in the Arranger window.
• Fix for the scrolling picture in PC Keyboard 2 window.
• OTS will no longer be removed when a style is loaded and saved.