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- Midisoft Studio For Windows, Version 3.10 Beta
-
- *** Note To Beta Testers: ***
- The new features that need special testing are ...
- - Undo (for Cut/Paste operations)
- - Metronome via MIDI
- - Saving of screen positions
- - Higher ruler resolutions including triplets
- - Saving MIDI File Type 0 (RIFF will not be supported)
- - Auto-Notation parameter changes, including recognition of triplets
- - Support for a wider range of Time Signatures
- - The humanize feature of Quantize
- - Auto-justification of printed page
- - New View Settings options
- - Click and Drag of notes and regions in Score View
- - Triplets
- - The new interactive Mixer screen
- Features that are not completed and should not be tested yet:
- - System Exclusive
- - Auto-transpose for printing
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-
-
- Information For New Users
-
- Thank you for purchasing Midisoft Studio for Windows. We greatly look
- forward to satisfying your sequencing needs now and for many years to come.
-
- Unless you have already done so, please mail us your product
- registration card, so that we can automatically send you a free song disk,
- and information about upcoming product upgrades and updates.
-
- We encourage you to contact us with any comments or questions that may
- arise as you use our program. Midisoft Technical Support; PO Box 1000;
- Bellevue WA 98009; USA; FAX 206-883-1368.
-
-
-
- ISSUES YOU MIGHT ENCOUNTER WITH THIS RELEASE:
-
- 1) If you find that occasionally you lose the mouse cursor, you might be
- encountering a hardware conflict between Mouse and MIDI that occurs
- rarely in Enhanced-mode Windows (on VERY FEW machines). If you use our
- program in Standard-mode Windows (Start Windows with WIN/S), this
- problem disappears.
- 2) If you have trouble getting MIDI Input, the problem is very likely
- a hardware interrupt conflict. Take inventory of the other cards you
- have in your system, and make sure the MIDI card has a unique
- interrupt level and I/O address. Note: The Windows Drivers for MIDI
- use Interrupts only for MIDI In, not for MIDI Out. So if MIDI Out
- (playing) seems to work fine, that is NO indication that you have your
- card's interrupt set correctly.
- 3) If you have trouble getting playback, we recommend you simplify your test
- configuration by simply using the Media Player provided in Windows.
- This program will play back any of the MIDI files provided with
- Midisoft Studio provided that you have configured your MIDI Mapper
- to playback the low channels (1-10). If you can successfully get
- the MIDI Mapper to playback within Windows, then you will be able
- to get Midisoft Studio to playback by selecting MIDI Drivers/
- Multimedia Drivers/MIDI Mapper from the Setup Menu.
- 4) When in Score View, if you have trouble selecting notes to edit, you might
- try changing the clef to make sure the notes appear on the staff.
- Another option is to start a Click & Drag region from within the staff
- and end it outside the staff. Similarly, to select rests (for the
- Splice Cut/Paste operations), do so by selecting click & drag region
- that includes the rest.
- 5) If you are running on a 1-2Mb computer, your usage of memory will affect
- the operation of our program. We recommend that you use HIMEM.SYS
- (to access the high 384K Extended Ram), but don't tie up any
- RAM into SMARTDRV.SYS. If Studio for Windows claims not to have
- enough memory, Windows might not be correctly detecting high memory.
- On a 1 Mb configuration, we recommend you ascertain that Windows has
- at least 600K available before running Studio for Windows. You can
- check your available memory by selecting "About Program Manager" in
- the Windows Program Manager's Help menu. We do not run in 640K
- machines (and thus not Real Mode Windows), nor do we suggest
- using Expanded RAM (Windows runs best using EXTENDED RAM, not
- EXPANDED). Special note: This may not be possible if you are
- using Windows 3.1. As mentioned on our box, the minimum RAM
- requirement for Windows 3.1 and Midisoft Studio is 2 Meg.
- 6) Because Midisoft Studio for Windows' MIDI drivers require instant access to
- memory, problems can be avoided by not using memory managers (such as
- earlier versions of QEMM) which intercept and map memory calls.
- We recommend that you simply use the HIMEM.SYS driver that comes with
- Windows. Similarly, TSR programs that are feeding off your computer's
- clock can also cause problems. If you are getting machine crashes or
- lock ups, we suggest clearing out your machine's startup files
- (AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS) to the bare minimum (even remove DOS shells)
- and try running Studio for Windows again before contacting our
- technical support department.
- Specifically, remove non-essential entries in your CONFIG.SYS
- and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, as well as bringing down the FILES= and
- BUFFERS= values in your CONFIG.SYS. If you are using DOS 5 (or later),
- also make sure that you have a DOS=HIGH entry in CONFIG.SYS.
- 7) Currently, our stand-alone Roland drivers are more efficient and more
- robust than those included in Windows 3.1. For this reason, we
- recommend that if you have a Roland-compatible or Midisoft Midiface
- card, use our drivers instead of those in the Win31/Multimedia
- Extensions. To do so, select "Midisoft Drivers" from the
- "MIDI Interface" dialog box.
- 8) A little hint about changing a note's pitch: Use the SHARP and FLAT
- tools (in the note palette) to click on a note and change by
- a half-step. This can be used repeatedly to change a pitch as
- far as you desire.
-
-
-
- ABOUT THE DEMO SONGS
-
- In addition to publishing music sequencing and notation programs like
- Studio for Windows and Recording Session for Windows, Midisoft also publishes
- MIDI data and music education software from which the following demo songs
- have been taken. Among these products are:
-
- The Midisoft Multimedia Music Library--A collection of original MIDI music
- for use in multimedia presentations.
-
- A World of Music--15 volumes of MIDI sequences of all types ranging from
- classical to jazz to pop.
-
- Music Mentor--A music enterntainment and education program that combines text
- and graphics with simple animation and MIDI-generated sound to make learning
- about music fun.
-
-
- How the Songs Are Set Up
-
- These songs were created on Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas sound modules. They
- conform to the new General MIDI standard for MIDI sequence publication. Each
- song file includes setup information at the beginning of each track that
- specifies patch, volume, pan, reverb, and chorus settings for each instrument.
- These files will, of course, sound their best on a Sound Canvas or another
- Roland GS MIDI device, but they should work just fine on any equipment that
- uses the General MIDI patch assignments. That includes many new products by
- Yamaha, Korg, and other companies, as well as most internal sound cards like
- Ad Lib, Sound Blaster, and Pro AudioSpectrum.
-
-
- A_BRIDGE.MID
- This is an excerpt from a piece called "A Bridge to Cross" composed
- by Tracy Hurst for the Midisoft Multimedia Music Library.
-
-
- ANOTHER1.MID
- This is an excerpt from a piece called "Dance Party" composed by Tracy Hurst
- for the Midisoft Multimedia Music Library.
-
-
- ARABESQ.MID
- This is an excerpt from the 1st Arabesque by Claude Debussy performed here
- by George Litterst. This piece was taken from A World of Music: The
- Impressionist Collection, a collection of pieces by Impressionist composers.
-
-
- BFLATBLS.MID
- BBBLUES.MID
- These are standard B-flat blues that you can use to practice blues soloing.
-
-
- BOURLESQ.MID
- This is a piece called "Bourlesq" written by Leopold Mozart
- (Wolfgang's father). It was taken from Music Mentor.
-
-
- CLAIRDLN.MID
- This is an excerpt from the Claire de Lune by Claude Debussy performed here
- by George Litterst. This piece was taken from A World of Music: Classical
- Favorites, Piano, a collection of famous classical piano pieces.
-
-
- CLEMENTI.MID
- This is a keyboard sonata by Muzio Clementi performed by George Litterst.
- It was taken from Music Mentor.
-
-
- FUGUE.MID
- This is a short fugue by Johann Pachelbel, sequenced by George Litterst.
- This piece was taken from Music Mentor.
-
-
- FURELISE.MID
- This is an excerpt from Fur Elise by Beethoven performed here
- by George Litterst. This piece was taken from A World of Music:
- Classical Favorites, Piano, a collection of famous classical piano pieces.
-
-
- GIGUE.MID
- This is a gigue by J. S. Bach performed by Sheila Waxman.
-
-
- JUSTDRUM.MID
- This is a collection of drum patterns created by Tracy Hurst for
- A World of Music:DrumBeats.
-
-
- PEERGYNT.MID
- This an excerpt from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite sequenced by Ben Hippen. This
- piece was taken from A World of Music: Classical Favorites, Orchestral.
-
-
- POLONAZE.MID
- This is an excerpt from Chopin's Military Polonaise performed
- by George Litterst.
-
-
- PRELUDE.MID
- This is a prelude by J. S. Bach performed by Sheila Waxman.
-
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- RAGTUNE.MID
- This is a piano piece by Tracy Hurst that was taken from the
- Midisoft Multimedia Library.
-
-
- RAINSONG.MID
- This is an excerpt from a piece composed by Tracy Hurst that was taken
- from the Midisoft Multimedia Music Library.
-
-
- ROCKNOUT.MID
- This is an excerpt from a piece composed by Tracy Hurst that was taken
- from the Midisoft Multimedia Music Library.
-
-
- SWEETHRT.MID
- This is an excerpt from a piece composed by Tracy Hurst that was taken
- from A World of Music: Pop Building Blocks.
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- Credits
-
- Music Mentor, A World of Music, and the Midisoft Multimedia Music Library
- as well as all the sequences included here were created for Midisoft Corporation
- by Music Technology Associates . Music Technology Associates is a
- Boston, Massachusetts-based group of music and computer professionals who
- provide product development and consulting services to companies in the
- music technology industry.
-
- Midisoft Studio for Windows and Midisoft Recording Session were created
- at the Midisoft Corporation world headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
-
-
- For information about additional products
-
- Midisoft Corporation
- PO Box 1000
- Bellevue, WA 98009
- VOICE: (206) 881-7176
- FAX: (206) 883-1368
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