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- PIANO v2.1 - Special Notes
- --------------------------
- 3-Nov-1993
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- Installation:
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- - unzip/copy Piano files somewhere on your disk
- - add PIANO.EXE to your favorite program group using
- Program Manager's File/Add command
- - install 'Piano MIDI Driver' using Control Panel:
- Drivers/Add/Unlisted or updated/Browse/select Piano's
- directory...
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- Uninstallation:
-
- Are you sure you want to do that? Oh, well... Delete files
- PIANO.EXE, PIANO.INI (located in your Windows directory) and
- PIANODRV.DRV (located in your Windows\System directory), and
- remove 'Piano MIDI Driver' through Control Panel/Drivers.
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- History:
-
- ver. 2.1 -- 3-Nov-1993
-
- Fixed the reported bugs from version 2.0
-
-
- ver. 2.0 -- 30-Oct-1993
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- A special MIDI driver has been created, that allows Piano to
- fully emulate the real keyboards. From now on you cannot
- only play songs with Piano, but also record them with your
- favorite MIDI software.
-
- Also new in this version is a secondary keyboard layout that
- might help you playing two hands, and of course, a lot of
- other minor features.
-
-
- ver. 1.0 -- 9-Oct-1993
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- Initial release.
-
-
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- Brief description of Options Menu:
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- - Keyboard Layout 1 and
- - Keyboard Layout 2
-
- The one with checkmark is currently active. If you want
- to know more about key-mapping, there's a picture of
- keyboard in About dialog box.
-
-
- - Sensitive Pitch Wheel
-
- If checked, pitch changes as soon as you move mouse
- pointer into pitch-wheel box, otherwise you have to
- hold down left key to move the pitch wheel.
- Clicking the right mouse button will reset the pitch.
-
-
- - Local Echo
-
- If checked Piano sends MIDI messages to Midi Mapper AND
- to Piano MIDI Driver, otherwise messages are sent only
- to the driver.
-
-
- - Auto Focus
-
- (Available only when Piano MIDI Driver installed)
-
- This is a funny feature. It is supposed to pop-up Piano
- whenever your MIDI software starts recording from a
- Piano MIDI Driver. In most cases it works, but there
- are some programs that don't notify the Piano Driver
- when they have started recording, so the Driver can't
- pop-up the Piano.
- This function only gives focus to the Piano when
- recording is started; it cannot execute the Piano --
- the Piano must already be running in the background.
-
-
- - Patch caching
-
- (Available only when Local Echo is enabled)
-
- Enables and disables patch-caching. Sometimes, when
- using Piano in conjunction with other MIDI software, it
- is better to let the other software do the
- patch-caching. Of course, this applies only to the
- systems that support patch-caching.
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-
- - Always on Top
-
- If checked, Piano stays a top window even if it's not
- active. Might be useful with those programs that don't
- support Auto Focus.
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-
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- Troubleshooting:
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- Piano says something about not being able to open MIDI-MAPPER...
-
- Piano wants Midi Mapper all by itself and you have another
- program running that has already reserved Midi Mapper
- for its own purposes. Exit that program and Piano should
- work just fine.
-
-
- Piano says nothing. It draws itself and then disappears...
-
- What you have is a mutated Piano. Get yourself a new copy
- of PIANO.EXE.
-
-
- Piano starts normally, but there's no sound...
-
- See if your sound card is in order -- try playing
- CANYON.MID with MEDIA PLAYER (both part of Windows). If
- you can't hear that either, there's something wrong with
- your sound card setup; fix it and try Piano again. If this
- is not the case and CANYON.MID plays just fine, try
- changing a channel. (BTW: Do you have 'Local Echo'
- enabled? If not, enable it and try again)
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- Shareware, author and other stuff:
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- There's small shareware notice when you start the program,
- my address is also included as well as my E-MAIL address.
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-
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- That's all folks!
-
- Gregor Brecko
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