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- Bars&Pipes Professional
- v 2.0
- 2/18/93
-
-
- Many last minute additions and improvements have been added to
- Bars&Pipes Professional 2.0 since the printing of the manual. Below
- is a list of changes:
-
- **********************************************************************
- * Bars&Pipes Professional 2.0 Features *
- **********************************************************************
-
- The Main Menu
- -------------
-
- The Amiga-key keyboard shortcuts have been changed to match the
- suggested keys in the Amiga Style Guide.
-
- A new Preferences option has been added: Send MIDI Defaults. If
- this option is selected, Bars&Pipes Professional sends the standard MIDI
- default values at the beginning of a song. Any information recorded
- in a track overrides these values. The information sent is:
-
- Volume 100 (the General MIDI default)
- Pan 0
- Mono After-Touch 0
- Pitch Bend 0
- Hold Pedal 0
-
-
- The Tracks Window
- -----------------
-
- The option to double-click on a track movement arrow to move a
- track to the bottom or top has been disabled. Tracks may now only be
- moved one step at a time or by gathering a group.
-
- The Copy command in the Track menu copies all Tools in the track
- as well as the sequence data.
-
-
- The Media Madness Window
- ------------------------
-
- A Speaker icon has been added. Clicking on this icon plays the
- currently selected event.
-
-
- The Track Edit Window
- ---------------------
-
- The Amiga-key keyboard shortcuts for the menu have been changed to
- match the suggested keys in the Amiga Style Guide.
-
- A Revert option has been added to the Edit menu. If you'd like to
- ignore all edits and restore the sequence by reading directly from
- the Track, select this command. Use this as a global Undo of all edits
- done to the track since the edit window was opened or last updated.
- This function is also useful if you are recording a mix on a track using
- MixMaestro while the edit window is open. A Revert in this case
- reads in the track data and the most recent mix data for editing.
-
- "Lock to..." preferences for note placement have been condensed
- into the following submenu:
-
- Default Note
- Notation Resolution
- Rhythm
- Flag Alignment
-
- The additional option, Flag Alignment, locks the mouse to the
- resolution set in the Align with... menu. Use this if you'd like to
- lock to Beats, Measures, Frames, or Seconds.
-
-
- Printing
- --------
-
- We have found that some printers can not handle the Extra Hi-Res
- printing option. If you have a dot matrix or other low resolution
- printer this option may cause scores to "miss" lines. Use the normal
- Hi-Res printing instead. If you'd like to fine tune the printing,
- select Default resolution and set the printer graphics parameters
- from your Printer Preferences in Workbench.
-
-
-
- **********************************************************************
- * Tools *
- **********************************************************************
-
- Controlled Performance
- ----------------------
-
- Controlled Performance is a new Tool not mentioned in the manual.
- This acts similarly to the Command Performance Tool except that it
- assigns ARexx commands/strings to MIDI controllers instead of notes.
- Each of the 128 controllers may be assigned with a minimum and maximum
- value. The actual value of the controller is adjusted to fit within these
- parameters.
-
- In the command string, use C printf()-type constructs to show
- Controlled Performance how to embed the number in the string.
- Of the greatest use is the C identifier for an integer, "%ld".
- For example, you might create a string that says:
-
- "Throw %ld bricks."
-
- Controlled Performance replaces the "%ld" with the adjusted controller
- number, updating the string to says something like, "Throw 78 bricks."
-
-
- Controller Invert
- -----------------
-
- Also a new Tool not mentioned in the manual, the Controller
- Invert Tool merely inverts the value of any MIDI control change
- message. Its edit window has one slider which defines the control
- change value to be inverted. This Tool is particularily useful
- for inverting Mix Maestro moves. For example, you might use it
- to synchronize a fade-in on one Track with a fade-out on another.
-
-
- Echo
- ----
-
- The Echo Tool is now a Branching Tool. If the Echo Tool is
- connected to a Merge Tool on another Track, the echoed notes
- branch to that Track. If the Echo Tool is not connected it performs
- as before. The original note ALWAYS gets sent down the original
- pipeline.
-
-
- POD People
- ----------
-
- The POD People Tool has an additional "Communications" menu where
- various Communications parameters such as baud rate, parity, etc, may
- be defined. Also a third parameter button has been added along with
- a set of transport buttons that control the Panasonic Optical Disk
- directly.
-
-
- SunRize Virtual Track
- ---------------------
-
- See the SunRize.doc file on the Bars&Pipes Professional disk.
-
-
- Toasty
- ------
-
- The Toasty Tool (and also the Toasty Receive program) now have an
- additional "Communications" menu where various Communications
- parameters such as baud rate, parity, etc, may be defined.
-
-
- **********************************************************************
- * Accessories *
- **********************************************************************
-
- Arexx
- -----
-
- The Arexx Accessory now accepts an optional parameter to the TEMPO
- command. If a parameter is present, B&P Pro changes the current
- tempo to the value of the parameter.
-
-
- AmiLink
- -------
-
- The AmiLink Accessory is a new accessory not mentioned in the
- manual. It controls the AmiLink software via ARexx.
-
- The top four buttons define which VCR is the current VCR. A, B,
- and REC make the A,B, or RECORD VCR's active. The ALL button makes
- all VCRs active. The bottom half of the window is a set of transport
- controls. The commands are:
-
- STOP PLAY REWIND FASTFORWARD
- PAUSE EJECT RECORD
-
- Use the AmiLink Accessory to remotely control Video Deck playback
- and recording from within Bars&Pipes Professional.
-
-
- Big Sys
- -------
-
- Big Sys now has two additional buttons, plus slots for input and
- output tools. The input and output tools default to the standard MIDI
- In and MIDI Out tools, but any input or output tool that deals with
- MIDI can be dragged into those areas, for example the One-Stop Music
- Shop's input and output tools.
-
- The two new buttons are 'Save Raw' and 'New'. The 'Save Raw'
- button saves the current sysex buffer as a raw sysex file. The normal
- 'Save' option creates a header that is used by B&P Pro, but if you
- wish to use your sysex data files with other programs 'Save Raw'
- should be used. Note that the 'Load' command will automatically
- detect and load in either a raw sysex file OR a B&P Pro sysex file.
-
- The 'New' button simply creates a new sysex buffer for you to
- edit. This allows you to create a sysex buffer to send to your MIDI
- device without loading it from disk.
-
-
- Phantom
- -------
-
- This is an Accessory from B&P Pro 1.0 that was not documented in
- the manual. It allows B&P Pro to synchronize with SMPTE via Dr. T's
- Phantom.
-
-
- sMerFF
- ------
-
- The sMerFF user interface is slightly different from that depicted
- in the manual. Instead of a separate SMPTE options requester, all
- SMPTE options are now in the main sMerFF control window.
-
-
- SunMPTE
- -------
-
- See the SunRize.doc file on the Bars&Pipes Professional disk.
-
-
- SunSet
- ------
-
- See the SunRize.doc file on the Bars&Pipes Professional disk.
-
-
- **********************************************************************
- * Technical Support *
- **********************************************************************
-
- Technical support is available only to registered users from
- 1:00pm to 5:00pm Monday through Friday at (404) 315-0212 ext 1061.
-