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Program name : MELODY ASSISTANT
Version : 1.1.3
Date : March 1998
Authors : Didier & Olivier Guillion
Adress : 22 rue Pierre d'Aragon, 31200 Toulouse, France
E-Mail : myriad@hol.fr
Web : http://members.aol.com/GBShare
1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. Documentation
4. Fee
5. Our other softwares
1. Introduction
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Melody is an useful software for computer-assisted tunes writing and
composition.
Easy to use, it offers a friendly interface and powerful features :
- Score editor
If you use often printed scores, it'll be easy to enter them on your
computer : Melody processes almost all the break symbols used in musical
writing, and uses them while playing the music. A powerful editor allows
you to place and move easily the notes on the staves.
- Digital output
A complete digital instrument database is integrated to Melody, which
gives hi-quality musics, even if you don't own professional hardware.
- Digital sound editor
You can record your own sounds from a CD or a microphone (or load a sound
file like .AIFF or .WAV), and use them as instruments in your tunes.
- Compatibility with other softwares
Your tune files can be played either on PC or Macintosh, since Melody
exists on both platforms. Melody allows also to import and export musics
in MIDI 0 or 1 or CMF format.
Melody can read Band In A Box style files and MOD or S3M files.
Exporting the whole tune in AIFF or WAV format allows your music to be
integrated in multimedia projects, or to be written later on an audio CD.
Exports are reserved to registered copies.
- Tablatures and chord diagrams
Guitarists and Bassists haven't been forgotten : Melody calculates
tablatures and displays the chord diagrams. You can even define your own
stringed instrument and calculate tablatures for it !
A complete library of guitar chord diagrams is given with Melody. You can
complete this library by defining easily your own chords.
- Karaoke
You can associate lyrics to a tune, and let the music play in Karaoke
mode. Of course, Melody loads and processes the MIDI Karaoke file format
(.KAR).
- Graphics and colors
Graphic in black and white or color (in BMP or PICT format) can be
inserted at any point on the score.
All the symbols can be colorized, globally or individually, in order to
enhance the attractiveness of your document.
You can drop texts and comments where you want on the score.
- Tune printing
Printing is widely user-defineable : you can define integrally the
printing format.
2. Intallation
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Start the "Install.exe" application and follow the instructions.
Note : The Windows 3.1x users must install beforehand the Microsoft's
32 bits compatibility kit named "Win32s".
3. Documentation
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The software manual is given in RTF format in the "Docs" folder
(Docs\English.rtf). We engage you to read it with your usual word
processor, and to print it.
However, if some problems aren't solved in the software manual, fell free
to contact us by postal or electronic mail.
4. Fee
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If you like this software and want to use it steadily, we ask for a
$15 fee.
Once this fee received, we'll send you back very quickly a personal
registration code which grants you the access to all the features :
unlimited number of symbols on a staff, music exports in WAV, AIFF or
MIDI format, key change at any point in the score ...
Of course, this personal registration number will remain valid for all
the future versions of Melody.
If you want to receive at home, by postal mail, the next releases of
Melody, add $4 for each release. If you have an Internet access, the next
releases will be available on our Web site, and on most of the shareware
archive services, like Shareware.com, SoftSeek, etc.
If you want to receive the extended version of the digital sound database,
add $6.
To register your copy, click on the "Register" button in the first window,
and choose the payment mode (credit card or other).
Then, you just have to follow the instructions.
5. Our other softwares
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Sapiens : Sapiens is an adventure-arcade game that brings you back 100 000
years ago for discovering the everyday life of the Homo Sapiens
Neandertalensis.
You incarnate a young Hunter from the Light-Foot tribe : you'll have to
explore your territory, keep up friendly contacts with the other tribes,
trade objects, make assegai heads and fight for your life...
The movements are displayed in 3D view and a digital music energizes the
game.
Fee : US $10
Awale : It is one of the most ancient games still played. The Masai say
that the Awale was invented by Sindillo, the son of the first man,
Maitoumbe, and was originally called geshe.
This fascinating African game (also known as Awele, Oware, Wari, ...) has
been here very attractively adapted on microcomputer. Play against the
computer and try to defeat him.
A very realistic game, with solid wood and clattering stones.
Its progressive game levels, its 16 different variations from all over
the world and its Internet features that allow two players to challenge
over
the Internet makes Awale the best Mancala game ever.
Fee : US $10
Harmony Assistant : Harmony is the Melody's big brother. To a more
complete description of this software, refer to the dedicated chapter in
the documentation file.
Harmony is a commercial software, sold $65. You can order an evaluation
copy (complete software, but without save and print options) for $6.
----- End of Readme file