Welcome to Stylus RMX 1.5 We highly recommend that you watch the “1.5 Update Tour” video to get a quick overview of all the new features and sounds of this major update to Stylus RMX. Please run all four of the 1.5 installers to get the necessary files for the update. Go to www.spectrasonics.net/rmxcommunity to download all the new 1.5 tutorial videos. There’s over 4.5 hours of brand new videos to check out! You can also order the 1.5 Update on DVD-ROM for $15US plus shipping through the Spectrasonics Techshop http://techshop.spectrasonics.net/ if you don’t have the time or bandwidth to download all the videos.

Release Notes 1.5.0c Plug-ins:   • Embedded HELP system: this is a new Utility Menu item to bring up your computer's html browser to display the new Stylus RMX Reference Guide electronic manual. Internet access is not required.   • Native Windows RTAS wrapper released.   • Buzz: this new Chaos page feature is useful for creating Aphex Twin-style stutter-remix effects. See Reference Guide chapter and “Chaos Buzz” tutorial for more info. • Maximum number of active Edit Groups per part doubled to 16.   • LFO phase locked to song beat: when the LFO has sync is turned on, the LFO retrigger button may be used to lock the phase of the LFO to the song beat so, for example, the sawtooth shape will always start on a beat boundary.  

• Various MIDI Learn enhancements: a new MIDI learn submenu has been added to the Utility Menu and contains several new features, including "show all" which displays your current settings in a browser window, Load/Save template, which loads/saves a MIDI learn template file, "clone" which makes assignments "paged" by cloning all part 1/channel 1 assignments to part/channel 2-8, "make non-cloned assignments omni" which takes all assignments that are not paged and makes them respond to all MIDI channels, and "ignore MIDI learn assignments when loading multi" which is a preference that controls whether MIDI learn assignments are loaded when loading a multi. Also, "MIDI Learn" has been added as an option to the status display which shows the MIDI CC assignment, if any, of a parameter when you tweak it.   • Display most recently played groove in browser: the most recently played groove for a part is now indicated in the browser with the speaker icon, which is very useful for Groove Menu MIDI mode.   • Automatic switch to Sound Menu MIDI mode when selecting a Sound Menu element:  selecting a Sound Menu now automatically puts RMX into Sound Menu MIDI mode.   • Edit group create/add/remove works in Groove Menu mode: when Groove Menu mode is on, choosing "Create edit group" will create an edit group for the groove and put the entire groove in that edit group. Likewise for the add/remove button.   • Show Author Info: Item added to the Utility Menu to display the author info for the current suite.   • Display an alert when loading a missing element: when you load a multi or part and the element can't be found, an alert is displayed.   • Confirmation Dialogs: confirmation dialogs are now displayed at various points where a significant amount of work could be lost. This includes: part clear, part revert, multi clear, favorites delete, and switching to/from kit mode.   • Display an alert when the SAGE directory can't be found: when you start RMX and the SAGE folder can't be found, a dialog is displayed which asks you to locate it.   • Effects parameters: improved display of effects parameter values.   • Efficiency changes: reduced memory usage requirements and improved performance on Windows.    

1.5 Core Library, Patches, Videos and Documentation:   • New and Updated Factory Multis directory includes 500 new Multitrack grooves created by the Spectrasonics sound design team, which take advantage of all the new functions and effects. Factory Multi patches are now categorized by genre.   • New and Updated Factory Kits directory includes 250 new Kits created by the Spectrasonics sound design team, which take advantage of all the new functions and effects. Factory Kit patches are now categorized by genre.   • New Documentation directory with all files for the new, comprehensive Reference Guide. (accessed via the new RMX Utility Menu “HELP” function. Reference Guide can also be viewed directly by clicking the "00-RMX Reference Guide.html" file in the Documentation directory)   • New 1.5 video tutorials uploaded to www.spectrasonics.net/rmxcommunity site.   • Updated Groove Elements.db includes new Tonal elements and newly created 4X4 Kicks suites   • Updated Example Groove Menus.db includes new genre-based example suites for use when the MIDI Mode is set to Groove Menu. (includes new Urban, Electronica, Drum n Bass, Film, Percussion templates)   • New Core Library genre-oriented libraries added for style & category browsing including: Urban.db, Club.db, Epic Energy.db, Swing.db, Epic Energy.db, Electro.db, Breakbeats.db   • New MIDI Learn directory includes factory MIDI controller templates for popular hardware devices including Korg microKontrol and Kontrol 49, M-Audio Ozonic, O2 and Trigger Finger, and Behringer BCF-2000 and BCR-2000. Documentation and support files are located within sub-folders for each device. An MS Word User documentation template for sharing controller templates is also included. Video Tutorials for each template and for creating a hardware controller template are also provided.   • Updated Default.mlt_rmx file to use lower CPU setting and higher quality sounding PRO-Verb patch on Aux 1 Rack   • New “Files” directory added for preferences   • Updated Core Library order.txt file

SAGE CONVERTER 1.5k OSX/WIN   • Additional Groove Control CD-ROM Library Support In addition to the Spectrasonics titles, this version now converts Roland and Akai versions of all Groove Control activated CD-ROM sample libraries including:   Big Bad Beats, Ethno Techno, Stark Raving Beats and NoizBox   NOTE: With version 1.5 of the SAGE Converter, is NOT necessary to reconvert any Spectrasonics Groove Control libraries or REX files that were previously converted with version 1.1 (unless you are specifically having trouble with previous conversions)  

• Drag & Drop Batch conversion for REX Suites and Libraries You can now Drag and Drop entire REX libraries onto the Converter's main window. This version supports a batch REX library conversion if the REX files are organized properly.   You can also drag multiple folders containing REX files onto the converter, which will batch convert a Suite for each folder of REX files. • Fixed various issues with REX files with non-standard lengths.   • Eject CD (MAC) Located in the main menu.   • Suite Name Dialog now responds to the Enter key to begin conversion.