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- THE RAMTRACKER V1.0 - HARD USER MANUAL + TROUBLESHOOTING
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- ON LINE
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- IN THE EDITOR YOU CAN ALWAYS PRESS ? FOR ON LINE HELP !
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- basic keys:
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- PRESS F1 - to start/stop music
- F2 - continue
- ESC - main menu : load music and a BRIEF HELP ! /in the event editor/
- ALT - for fast forward
- CTRL+ENTER - switch between editing parts
- ESC - go backward
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- INSTALLING THE RAMTRACKER(TM)
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- -run the SETUP.EXE and choose sound device
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- -start RAMTRACKER(TM) by running through RAMTRACK.BAT.
- press esc before the intro start for a TOTAL skip.
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- WORKING METHOD
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- RAMTRACKER(TM) is developed to work with WAVETABLE cards or GM compatible
- modules. UNLUCKILY NO FM SUPPORTED (BUT WE SUPPORT FM, CAUSE WE LOVE THAT!)
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- OWN SAMPLED WAVES NOT ALLOWED YET.
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- FOR OPL2/OPL3 FM BLOCK PLAYERS/TRACKERS YOU MUST SEEK FOR OUR EDITOR CALLED
- AMC V1.0 (* NEXT RELEASE *)
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- IMPORTANT NOTICES
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- for GRAVIS UTLRASOUND / UTLRASOUND MAX:
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- 1. for full feature use you'll need 1 Mbytes of RAM. Otherwise no whole
- GM bank available
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- 2. you'll need PATH for MEGAEM added to your autoexec.bat.
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- for SB AWE 32:
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- 1. you must use AWEUTIL 1.11 or later to get correct result
- (1.11 included in this pack) - you have an older version that came\
- with your installing pack !
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- 2. this card is simply the best ! keep on going with this !
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- for GM COMPATIBLES (ROLAND CANVAS, MT32 and SO...)
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- 1. no receipe. MPU 401 interface is a MUST.
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- ---> THE AWE 32-GM and GUS INSTRUMENT BANK ARE A LOT DIFFERENT ! <---
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- IDENTIFIERS ?
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- The MIDI systems are so much different. In the future we'll use numbers
- according to the systems:
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- 1. GRAVIS ULTRASOUND
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- 2. MPU 401 GM
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- 3. SB AWE 32
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- here's the technical parameters of the cards (only the not standard ones):
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- chorus 2*,3
- reverb 2*,3
- effect types 2*,3
- drumsets 1: 1 , 2: 6 , 3:6
- instruments 1:128 , 2:128 , 3:187
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- * = optional
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- TROUBLESHOOTING !
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- 1. INITIALIZATION FAULT
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- 1. GUS (MANUAL BASEPORT SETTING FROM SETUP):
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- - no megaem installed properly:
- - no path for megaem (add path in autoexec.bat)
- - no expaned memory manager (megaem needs that !)
- (add emm386.exe or qemm386.exe to your config.sys)
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- - bad paseport address : try another one in the setup!
- - card at bad baseport : make sure that no other devices installed
- on the same baseport
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- 2. GM (MANUAL BASEPORT SETTING FROM SETUP):
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- - bad paseport address : try another one in the setup
- - card at bad baseport : make sure that no other devices installed
- on the same baseport
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- 3. SB AWE 32(AUTOMATIC DETECTION):
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- - aweutil initalization fault : 1. turn off your machine and restart !
- 2. run diagnose to find the problem
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- - card at baseport : make sure that no other devices installed
- on the same baseport
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- 2. NO PRODUCED SOUND:
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- - boost the volume
- - for (2) bad connection /midi in/out plugged badly/
- - no instrument selected (while typing in the sounds)
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- 3. INCORRECT INSTRUMENT'S COMING ON THE GUS
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- - less than 1MB RAM : buy more !
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- 4. YOUR FRIEND'S AWE32 MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER:
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- - he/she has a later version of AWEUTIL. GET IT!
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- 5. FREEZE / SYSTEM SHOCK
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- - we've never met with anything like this before-> you must be wrong
- somewhere !
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- TECHNICAL HOTLINE
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- Technical Hotline is available at the HUMANSOFT LTD. anytime at the day.
- Only you have to do is to reach a person called ADAM DAVIDSON or THOMAS DANKA.
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- SO, call : +36-1-163-2879
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- HELP US !
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- If you are good at some languages please help us translate RAMTRACK(TM).
- Your help is going to be payed. Contact us at:
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- CONTACT CORNER !
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- ABSOLUTE! Ltd. / RAMJET PRODUCTIONS
- H-1141, BUDAPEST
- Komócsy 1/b HUNGARY
- Tel / Fax : +36-1-252-0196
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- for tools to the hardware prowiders:
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- HUMANSOFT Ltd.
- H-1149, BUDAPEST
- Angol u. 24/b HUNGARY
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- Tel : +36-1-252-0196
- Fax : +36-1-251-3673