drivePACK Editor software website general index
• Introduction.
• Software guide and tutorials.
• ROM PACK data organisation and instructions.
• License and downloads.
• Software guide and tutorials.
• ROM PACK data organisation and instructions.
• License and downloads.
Introduction
This site is dedicated to the drivePACK Editor software, an open source Windows PC application that allows you to create and edit ROM PACK themes and make the most of the drivePACK emulator. This site also includes very useful information for those who want to understand how data is organised inside the ROM PACK cartridges. The main goal of the drivePACK Editor software is to allow creating new ROM PACK cartridges, but also to allow editing and modifying existing ones, or creating new ROM PACK compilations with the themes of other cartridges.
The content of the ROM PACK cartridges is in a binary file format and editing it by hand with a binary editor may be a very difficult task, nearly impossible to anybody without experience with this kind of programs. But drivePACK Editor makes this task accessible to anybody. It's only necessary to understand that a ROM PACK cartridge consists of different themes, and each theme, in turn, consists of three channels: one channel for the main melody (melody 1 channel), another channel for the accompaniment melody (obbligato or melody 2 channel), and a third channel for rhythm and chords (chords channel). Additionally, each of these channels typically follows the same structure with a header, body, and ending. The user only needs to add the desired themes to their ROM PACK project, adjust the header and the ending, and edit the content of the body for each theme's channel. After all, the information encoded in each of these channels mostly corresponds to the information in a conventional musical score.
This software has been developed to work integrated with the drivePACK emulator unit, but it is not required to use it, as it can generate content not only in the custom .DRP file format. but also in the standard raw .bin format. It can also export and import selected themes in the .cod text file format, which can also be read or edited with any text editor.
drivePACK Editor capabilities are:
• compose new themes and build them into new ROM PACK files / cartridges.
• create custom compilation cartridges.
• import new themes from MIDI files created with other DAWs (Reaper, Cubase, FLStudio...).
• process, edit and store to a .DRP file the ROM PACK content received in the computer from the drivePACK unit.
• send ROM PACK .DRP files from the computer to the drivePACK unit to play them.
• view and edit the content of ROM PACK files with the included binary editor.
• send the ROM PACK files edited with the included binary editor to the drivePACK unit.
• convert ROM PACK files to different formats (.DRP, .BIN).
• view and edit the content of ROM PACK files with a binary editor.
• and other...
The content of the ROM PACK cartridges is in a binary file format and editing it by hand with a binary editor may be a very difficult task, nearly impossible to anybody without experience with this kind of programs. But drivePACK Editor makes this task accessible to anybody. It's only necessary to understand that a ROM PACK cartridge consists of different themes, and each theme, in turn, consists of three channels: one channel for the main melody (melody 1 channel), another channel for the accompaniment melody (obbligato or melody 2 channel), and a third channel for rhythm and chords (chords channel). Additionally, each of these channels typically follows the same structure with a header, body, and ending. The user only needs to add the desired themes to their ROM PACK project, adjust the header and the ending, and edit the content of the body for each theme's channel. After all, the information encoded in each of these channels mostly corresponds to the information in a conventional musical score.
This software has been developed to work integrated with the drivePACK emulator unit, but it is not required to use it, as it can generate content not only in the custom .DRP file format. but also in the standard raw .bin format. It can also export and import selected themes in the .cod text file format, which can also be read or edited with any text editor.
drivePACK Editor capabilities are:
• compose new themes and build them into new ROM PACK files / cartridges.
• create custom compilation cartridges.
• import new themes from MIDI files created with other DAWs (Reaper, Cubase, FLStudio...).
• process, edit and store to a .DRP file the ROM PACK content received in the computer from the drivePACK unit.
• send ROM PACK .DRP files from the computer to the drivePACK unit to play them.
• view and edit the content of ROM PACK files with the included binary editor.
• send the ROM PACK files edited with the included binary editor to the drivePACK unit.
• convert ROM PACK files to different formats (.DRP, .BIN).
• view and edit the content of ROM PACK files with a binary editor.
• and other...
Screens of the drivePACK Editor.
Check the drivePACK Editor guide to find out all the options offered by this software.
Edit a ROM PACK file in the computer and play it in a real CASIO keyboard.
All the information related to the CASIO ROM PACK emulator hardware and firmware can be found on drivePACK project website.
drivePACK Editor binaries and source code
drivePACK Editor can be downloaded directly as an executable, or alternatively as a Visual Studio project from which it can be modified and compiled. The instructions to get the drivePACK executable and the source code are available in the license and downloads page.
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