Welcome to Bandstand

Thank you very much for purchasing BANDSTAND and a entering a new world of
perceiving GM technology.

Software Updates
BANDSTAND is a powerful, complex piece of software that is constantly being improved.
After installing and registering BANDSTAND, go to www.native-instruments.com to check
for updates (these are located in the site’s Support section).
Installing updates as they become available will insure optimal operation, as well as
add any new features. If you experience problems, please do not contact tech support
until you have checked for, and installed, any updates.
Please see the Readme.txt file in the BANDSTAND install folder for important
notes, known limitation and issues, and manual corrections. It can even contain
latebreaking information that may apply to your setup.

How to Contact NATIVE INSTRUMENTS

For more information about other Native Instruments products, please visit the NI
homepage at www.native-instruments.com, or contact info@native-instruments.com.
Enjoy the power of BANDSTAND! We sincerely hope it helps turn your musical dreams
into reality.

Your NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Team

Getting Started
Here we will cover some basic
information that will get you up and
running with BANDSTAND stand-
alone. For more detailed information
and examples please refer to the
handbook.
This document, as well as the full
handbook, are provided as PDF
files within the Documentation
folder, which is located within the
BANDSTAND application folder.
Note that the setup procedure
described here applies only to
stand-alone mode. Starting
with Part 2, everything in
this document applies to
both stand-alone and plug-in
modes.
Part 1: Computer Setup
After installing BANDSTAND double-
click on the BANDSTAND icon in the
Application folder
PC: Programs/Native Instruments;
Mac: MacintoshHD/ Applications
You are presented immediately with
a dialog. These are your Audio and
MIDI settings. In BANDSTAND you
access this dialog from the Setup
(Mac) or File (PC) menu from within
the software.
In the future, you will need to do
this every so often, like when you
install a new soundcard or MIDI
device, or when you want to change
the latency. This dialog only works for
the standalone and if you should ever
need to troubleshoot anything, such
as no audio output or MIDI input,
here is a good place to start.
Soundcard Setup
First, choose your interface type. On
Macintosh the only choice will be
CoreAudio. This is Apple’s integrated,
low latency interface which all OS X
compatible soundcards support. With
Windows you’ll have more choices,
but ASIO almost always provides the
best response.
Select the desired sample rate. Make
sure it’s supported by your audio
interface. We suggest starting out
with 44100, because virtually all
sound cards support that rate. Choose
your output device. Most soundcards
nowadays have drivers especially
written for them. We suggest using
those drivers whenever possible.
Caution for PC users: Select a
driver specifically for your card.
A generic driver, like “ASIO
DirectX” or “ASIO Multimedia”
will not give as good a response.
If a driver name includes the
soundcard or audio interface
model number, or the name of
the interface’s manufacturer,
choose that one.
Routing Setup
If your soundcard has multiple output
capabilities, here is where you would
set that up. Since BANDSTAND
only has a stereo output, you can
only select one of these pairs.
Most standard soundcards have
just one stereo out (as seen above).
BANDSTAND will use that provided
the soundcard was setup correctly
(see previous section).
MIDI Setup
If you have a MIDI device installed
(USB are most common these
days), here is the setup for that.
Upon starting BANDSTAND, your
MIDI device will be off. To turn on
a MIDI device, click on Off and it
will toggle to On. If you see nothing
in the windows, then this means
BANDSTAND has not detected your
MIDI device. Please make sure that
it is turned on or plugged in to a
free USB port. For USB and FireWire
devices, the solution may be as simple
as unplugging, then re-plugging, the
device’s associated cable. It could
also mean that the device driver is
not correctly installed, please see
your MIDI device’s documentation
for further information.
Part 2: The player provides optimized ease
of use:
Loading a MIDI FILE
• play/pause button in the middle
• back to song start button
• loop function (whole song)
Part 3: Loading a sound
To play back MIDI-files you have to
press the Folder Button in the MIDI-
file player. A file dialogue opens. In
order to play back the MIDI files
using your own settings (as described
below), it’s necessary to switch off
program changes. Do this by pressing
the PC button in the Player.
Changing playback sounds is easily
possible by using drag and drop.
Select an instrument and drag it onto
an instrument channel. The same
procedure is valid for Bandstand in
plug-in mode.
The sound list contains two views.
Switch between the two by using the
buttons 1-8 and 9-16. To access the
list of the drum sounds press the
Browse through your file directory Drumkits-Button. The drumkits can
and select the MIDI-file you want to be dropped onto channel 10.
play back.
You can modify the tempo of the
MIDI-file by clicking the up/down
arrows in the MIDI-file player’s BPM
section. Furthermore, the disk symbol
provides an export to audio function
for the creation of wav-files from the
MIDI file.
Part 4: Adjusting the mix
Part 6: Adjusting Effects Congratulations, you made it through
your first steps with BANDSTAND. As
we said earlier, these are just basic
steps to help you become familiar
with the features and interface. If you
want to learn more, please check the
handbook for precise information. We
think you’ll agree that Bandstand is
the ultimate companion!

Enjoy.
The mixer page is accessible by
pressing the MIX button. It’s easy -Your Native Instruments Team
to adjust the mix of your instruments
by moving knobs like volume, pan,
chorus, reverb. Access to the sound
library is possible using the drop-
down menus in the first row. The
second row provides EQ-presets for
every single channel.

Part 5:
Save and Load Presets

Individual settings can be stored by

entering a name in the preset-field
and pressing the save icon.
Stored presets can be loaded by
using the drop-down menu in the
header:
To empty all cells and create a new
composition of instruments press
the New Document symbol in the
Header:
A dju s tin g e f f e c t s g i v e s th e
instruments a professional touch.
This is easy as many effect presets
for chorus, reverb, EQ and limiter
have been provided. Just turn the
power button on (yellow) to activate
the effect. Click it again to deactivate.
Effect presets are accessed through
the drop-down menu.