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What can the Midi Music Centre do?
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The MIDI Music Centre (MIDIPLay) allows you to play a melody and
chords on your computer keyboard if you have a SoundBlaster card
without a MIDI Keyboard or synthesizer.
N.B.: I have checked this program with a Soundblaster CT1600
installed. As the program does not address the sound card
directly, but uses the Windows drivers, most other sound cards
with a MIDI capability should work. Let me know if you can run
this program on other sound cards.
The MIDI Music Centre Piano allows you to choose one of 128
instruments available on your SoundBlaster card, to choose your
base Octave (between 1 and 6), your Volume, to adjust your
Pitch, Velocity and Channel.
The MIDI Drum allows you to play complicated drum and rhythm
patterns over and over again. You can start such a sequence,
switch over to the piano and play a melody over the rhythm. You
can save the drum patterns either as a .DRM or as a .MIDI file.
Quick Start
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1. You must have a SoundBlaster card installed, and you must
have the Windows Drivers installed for that card (consult your
SoundBlaster Documentation on how to do that, if you haven't
done it already.)
2. Unzip and copy all the files in MIDIPlay.ZIP into a
directory, e.g. MIDI. You can install an icon in Program
Manager, by using file/new/program
3. Start the program from the File Manager or from the Icon on
the Program manager. When you start the program you are shown
the piano keyboard.
4. Click the mouse inside the keyboard.
5. You can now play the keyboard either with the mouse or with
your computer keyboard. You can play chords, but due to the
limitations of the IBM keyboard, most but not all notes will
sound simultaneously all the time.
6. You can choose one of 128 instruments available on your
SoundBlaster card from the menu. You can also choose your base
Octave (between 1 and 6), your Volume, to adjust your Pitch,
Velocity and Channel.
7. To use the Drum Machine, switch to DRUM in the Windows Menu.
You can switch back to the Piano Keyboard in the Windows Menu.