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- Notes on Music Mentor 1.02
-
- Here are a few last minute notes on Music Mentor that could
- not be included the user's manual.
-
-
- Using Music Mentor with Recording Session
-
- If you are using Music Mentor with Midisoft Recording
- Session for Windows, make sure you set up Recording
- Session's MIDI interface parameters before switching
- to Session from within Music Mentor. Also, make sure that
- Session's MIDI settings with regard to the choice of MIDI
- driver and the use of the MIDI Mapper are the same as Music
- Mentor's MIDI settings. If you are running Windows 3.1,
- Music Mentor's default MIDI setting is to use the Multimedia
- MIDI Driver. Any time Mentor is using the Multimedia MIDI
- Driver it will also be using the MIDI Mapper. For more
- information on this, see the section in your user's manual
- on setting up Music Mentor for MIDI.
-
-
- Running on Two Megabyte Machines
-
- If you experience performance or reliability problems using
- Music Mentor on machines with two megabytes of memory, try
- the following things:
-
- Turn off SMARTDRV by taking the line that launches SMARTDRV
- out of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and restarting your computer.
- On two meg machines, we do not recommend using Music Mentor
- when SMARTDRV is on.
-
- Free up as much memory as possible before launching Music
- Mentor. Ideally, only the Program Manager should be open.
-
- If you have an MPU-401-compatible MIDI device, use the
- Midisoft MIDI Driver instead of the Multimedia MIDI Driver
- in Music Mentor's MIDI Setup dialog. The Midisoft MIDI
- Driver is faster and more efficient.
-
-
- Running at Screen Resolutions Larger Than 640 x 480
-
- Music Mentor was designed for use at 640 x 480. If you don't
- want to run Music Mentor in this resolution, preferring
- instead to run at 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768, you should be
- aware that the size of the text will change, and in some
- cases may be difficult to read because it is so small. Some
- makers of high resolution video cards include larger-than-
- normal screen fonts for use in these situations. We have
- found that on some systems, this may cause some of the text
- in Music Mentor to "spill out" over its field boundaries.
- Text is either cut off or overruns another graphic object.
- The problem is caused because you have switched to different
- screen fonts in order to make better use of the increased
- resolutions. You always have the option, of course, of not
- switching to different screen fonts, and in this case, Music
- Mentor should look fine. The only screen font Music Mentor
- uses is Helvetica, so it is only when a new font is
- substituted for Helvetica that this becomes a problem.
-
-
- Another Font-Related Issue
-
- Users who run Music Mentor in conjunction with on-the-fly
- type scaling software like Adobe Type Manager and Bitstream
- FaceLift may notice that some text looks slightly out of
- place on screen. This happens when the type scaling program
- takes over the "rasterization" (on-screen drawing) of the
- Helvetica screen font. Though we have not come across any
- situations where this is a serious problem that prevents
- use of the program, if it bothers you you can probably
- correct it by altering the sizes of screen fonts that your
- type scaling program will draw and returning the drawing of
- the affected Helvetica fonts back over to Windows itself.