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- Master Tracks Pro Demo Ver. 3.96
-
-
- THE SETUP INSTALLATION PROGRAM
- Master Tracks Pro now has an improved installation program that runs
- from Windows.
-
- To install from Windows:
- 1. Insert the floppy disk in Drive A: or B:.
- 2. From the Program Manager File menu, choose "RUN".
- 3. A dialog box will appear. In the "Command Line" field enter...
- A:SETUP or...
- B:SETUP
- 4. The setup program on the floppy disk will run. Follow the on-
- screen prompts to complete the installation.
-
- To install from DOS:
- 1. Insert the floppy disk in Drive A: or B:.
- 2. From the DOS prompt type WIN A:SETUP or WIN B:SETUP.
- 3. The setup program on the floppy disk will run. Follow the on-
- screen prompts to complete the installation.
-
- To run the Master Tracks Pro Demo, double-click its icon, or one of
- the sample music file icons, in the Windows Program Manager.
-
- This version of Master Tracks Pro is designed to run with the
- Multimedia Extensions to Windows or with Passport's own MIDI drivers.
- If you have the Windows Multimedia Extensions you should not install
- the Passport MIDI drivers, instead you can use any MIDI driver that
- is installed with your Multimedia extensions. If you do NOT have
- Multimedia Extensions to Windows you MUST install the Passport MIDI
- drivers in order for Master Tracks Pro to run.
-
- There are three cases where you might want to use Passport's MIDI
- drivers even if you are running Multimedia Extensions. The first case
- is if you have a MusicQuest MQX style MIDI interface, and you want to
- use its extended 32 MIDI channel or SMPTE syncing capabilities. The
- second case is if you want to use Passport's MIDI Transport
- interface. The final case is if you experience inaccuracies during
- recording when using an MPU-401 or LAPC style MIDI interface for
- MIDI in. In any of these cases you can install the Passport MIDI
- drivers into the same directory where Master Tracks Pro is installed.
- Then, to use the Passport MIDI drivers instead of Multimedia
- Extensions, simply run Windows from inside the Master Tracks Pro
- directory. Be aware that when you do this, the rest of the Multimedia
- Extensions will not function. To restore full multimedia capabilities
- you must exit Windows and re-run Windows from any other directory
- that does not contain the Passport MIDI drivers.
-
- The Setup program creates a Program Manager group called "Master
- Tracks Pro" and several Program Manager items (icons) for the Master
- Tracks Pro program and sample files. Unfortunately, a limitation of
- the Setup program is that it has no way of knowing if a group already
- exists, so if you already have a group called "Master Tracks Pro", or
- if you re-install one or more of the program sections, the old
- "Master Tracks Pro" group and any additional items in it will be
- replaced with the new "Master Tracks Pro" group with only those items
- that are associated with the sections that were installed. For this
- reason you should rename the Program Manager group or move all the
- items to a different group before re-installing all or part of Master
- Tracks Pro.
-
- Several sample music files are included with Master Tracks Pro.
- The files DRIVING.MTS and GtrBlues.MTS are authored and voiced
- according to authoring guidelines for Multimedia PCs, where channels
- 1 through 10 are for Hi-End General MIDI style sound modules, while
- channels 13 through 16 are for base-level Adlib, SoundBlaster or
- MediaVision style FM synth cards. The best way to get these files to
- sound good on your system is to play them back through a correctly
- configured MIDI Mapper. You can do this by selecting the MIDI Mapper
- as the output port in Master Tracks Pro's MIDI Setup dialog.
- Alternativly, you can playback the base-level channels directly to an
- Adlib sytle FM synth, by selecting the corresponding output port in
- the MIDI Setup dialog and by soloing the tracks that are assigned to
- channels 13 through 16. MIDI Mapper and Adlib style FM support is
- only available when running with the Multimedia Extensions. Of course,
- if you have a General MIDI synth, such as the Roland SC-55 Sound
- Canvas connected to a MIDI out port, then you could solo all tracks
- that are assigned to channels 1 through 10 and play them back
- directly.
-
- The other sample music files that are included are either voiced
- for a Roland MT-32, CM-64 or LAPC style synth or are generic enough
- to sound good on just about any synth or sound module. These files
- are not intended for multimedia purposes and will not sound right
- when played back through the MIDI Mapper.
-
-
- THE MIDI SETUP DIALOG
- The MIDI Setup dialog has been redesigned in this version of Master
- Tracks Pro. The main difference is that the process of port selection
- is greatly simplified. The MIDI in and MIDI out ports are selected
- using drop-down lists (combo boxes) instead of radio buttons. If you
- are running the Multimedia Extensions for Windows, all the MIDI ports
- that are available on your system will appear in the list boxes along
- with a "None" choice. The combo box lists for Port A/B should also
- have an option for the MIDI Mapper. See your Multimedia Extensions
- or MPC documentation for details on using the MIDI Mapper. If you are
- using the Passport MIDI Driver, you will see the normal MPU-401,
- Transport on COM1:, and Transport on COM2:, choices that are
- supported by the Passport MIDI Driver. To make a port selection,
- click on the arrow button on the right of the combo box and a list of
- all available selections will appear. Click on the selection that
- you want. The "None" choice is useful for freeing up a port so that
- it can be used by another application.
-
- The other main difference in the MIDI Setup dialog is that the
- "Port Base Address" and the "Interrupt IRQ" settings have been
- removed. If you are running Multimedia Extensions, these items
- can be adjusted by using the Driver Setup Applet in the Windows
- Control Panel. Otherwise, you will have to make manual entries
- in the SYSTEM.INI file as described below
-
- In general, the entries in the SYSTEM.INI use the following format:
-
- [DRVRNAME.DRV] The actual name of the driver.
- INT=n Interrupt IRQ setting where n = 2 - 15
- PORT=n Port Base address where n is a port address in
- hexadecimal notation.
-
- Some of the Multimedia Drivers use "IRQ=" in lieu of "INT=", so it
- never hurts to include both entries. Each entry should be on a
- different line, followed by the same interrupt/IRQ setting. Note:
- These entries may not appear if the drivers were previously using
- their default settings. You may have to enter the driver name in
- square brackets, followed by your desired settings, one item per
- line. See the example below.
-
- [MPU401.DRV]
- INT=2
- PORT=330
-
- [TRNSPRT1.DRV]
- INT=4
- PORT=38F
-
- [TRNSPRT2.DRV]
- INT=3
- PORT=28F
-
- PLEASE NOTE:
- When using the Passport MIDI drivers with an MPU-401 interface, the
- default interrupt settings of 2 or 9 do not work when running in 386
- Enhanced Mode. You can either reconfigure the interrupt setting on the
- card and in SYSTEM.INI or you can run in Standard Mode (i.e., WIN /S).
- This limitation does not occur when running Multimedia Extensions. In
- all cases the interrupt and port address settings on your MIDI
- hardware must match the settings in the SYSTEM.INI file, in order for
- MIDI to function correctly.
-