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- A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA TEXT !!!
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- To use this disk at all, you will need an Amiga with a minimum of 1 MegaByte of
- RAM. You will not be able to load any of the scores into a machine with only
- 512k of RAM. Sorry about that!
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- For those of you curious enough to click on these icons from the WorkBench I'd
- like to say a few more words about the disk. In order to listen to the music
- on this disk, you will have to boot from it. Unless of course, you have a copy
- of SONIX. Read on...
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- If you have 1 MB of CHIP-RAM (i.e. "Fatter" Agnus) you can load SONIX and set
- the INSTRUMENTS directory to RHAPSODY:INSTRUMENTS and the SCORES directory to
- RHAPSODY:SCORES and then load Rhapsody.SMUS into SONIX. This will take quite a
- while! You can then have a look at how I "did it"!! Please feel free to use the
- instruments in your own masterpieces but be warned that some of them will sound
- a bit odd because they are made as "transposing" instruments, in other words
- they are not mapped in the key of C Major but in B flat or A etc. This was
- facilitated by EZ-FM and SYNTHIA PRO's transposition capabilities and made
- entering the music in SONIX a lot simpler (a lot of the instruments called for
- in Rhapsody in Blue are transposing instruments, like the B flat clarinet and
- the Horn in F for example, and had I not been able to preset the key of these
- instruments, score entry in SONIX would have been much more difficult).
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- Some of the .INSTR files (like those that begin with p or mp or "Soft" etc) are
- just different volume settings of the base instrument (the .SS file).
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- Those of you with 1 MB of memory (but only 512k of CHIP-RAM) can load the .SMUS
- files which are named with bar numbers (187-297.SMUS for example) into SONIX
- for examination and instrument-nicking! Set your directories from SONIX as
- above.
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- PLEASE REMEMBER THOUGH THAT THE ARRANGEMENTS AND SONIX SCORES HEREON ARE
- COPYRIGHT RESERVED ROB BAXTER/THE DESKTOP MUSIC WORKSHOP. Thank you!
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- If you only have 512k of CHIP-RAM, when you listen to the music on this disk,
- my little picture will not be displayed. That is why I have provided an icon to
- enable you to view it from WorkBench (can't see why you'd want to though!). The
- picture has been crunched so it cannot be readily loaded into DPaint etc.
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- To recap. 1 MB of CHIP-RAM is recommended to get the best from this version of
- Rhapsody in Blue. 512k of CHIP-RAM has been catered for but you still need 1 MB
- of RAM overall.
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- ENJOY....
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- ROB BAXTER. Oct. 1991
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