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- !!!! NEW FEATURES !!!!
- Please see the end of this file for information about new features!
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- ABOUT SWEET SIXTEEN
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- SWEET SIXTEEN is a 24/48 track sequencer program that allows you to
- record, edit and playback all types of MIDI events and store them to
- disk. The resolution of the sequencer is 192 PPQN (ticks per quarter
- note) and thanks to the multitasking capability you can use almost every
- command while SWEET SIXTEEN is running.
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- You will need a PC-compatible computer, minimum 386SX, 16 Mhz,
- with at least 2 Megabytes of RAM and Windows 3.1 or later. You will also
- need some kind of sound source, either a soundcard with MIDI capabilities
- or a MIDI interface and an external syntheziser.
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- !!!! NEW FEATURES !!!! / !!!! NEW FEATURES !!!! / !!!! NEW FEATURES !!!!
- Please see the end of this file for information about new features!
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- INSTALLING
- In order to run SWEET SIXTEEN you first have to install it onto your
- harddisk using the installation program on the program disk.
-
- INSTALLING FROM A FLOPPY DISK:
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- Installing procedure:
- 1. Launch Windows.
- 2. Insert the floppy disk in Drive A or B.
- 3. From the Program Manager File menu, choose "RUN".
- 4. A dialog box will appear. In the "Command Line" field enter...
- A:INSTALL or B:INSTALL
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- 5. The installation program on the floppy disk will run. Follow the
- onscreen prompts to complete the installation.
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- INSTALLING DOWNLOADED ZIPFILE:
- Installing procedure:
- 1. Launch Windows.
- 2. Unzip .zip file to an empty directory (eg. C:\TMP).
- 3. From the Program Manager File menu, choose "RUN".
- 4. A dialog box will appear. In the "Command Line" field enter path
- of your temporay directory (eg. C:\TMP).
- 5. Choose install.exe and run.
- 6. The installation program in your temporay directory will run. Follow the
- onscreen prompts to complete the installation.
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- If any changes have been made to the program, you will be informed by
- a "Read me" text that will appear in a window at this point.
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- The Setup program creates a Program Manager group called "SWEET SIXTEEN"
- and Program Manager items (icons) for the SWEET SIXTEEN program and a
- couple of demo songs.
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- The install process does not add any files to your windows/system directory!
- The install process does not add or change anything in your win.ini file!
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- You may add the folowing line(s) to your win.ini file
- under the [Extensions] header.
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- sng=C:\S16_LITE\s16_lite.exe ^.sng
- sng=C:\SWEET_16\sweet_16.exe ^.sng
- sng=C:\S16_DEMO\s16_demo.exe ^.sng
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- depending on what directory you have installed Sweet Sixteen to and the
- version you are using.
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- This will run Sweet Sixteen when you click on
- a .sng file (Sweet Sixteen song file).
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- !!!! / !!!! !!!! / !!!! !!!! / !!!! !!!! / !!!!
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- SWEET SIXTEEN is designed to run with the Multimedia Extensions under
- Windows 3.1 which means you also have to make sure you have installed
- a MIDI driver for the interface or soundcard you are going to use
- (see the instructions for your interface).
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- To run SWEET SIXTEEN, double-click its icon in the Windows Program
- Manager.
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- MIDI SETUP.
- When starting SWEET SIXTEEN for the first time you will be told to set up
- your MIDI interface. Choose the MIDI/Memory Setup Dialog from the options
- menu.
-
- Here you select which MIDI in and MIDI out ports you want use
- by using the drop-down lists (combo boxes). All the
- MIDI ports that are available on your system will appear in the
- list boxes along with a "No device" choice. The Output port lists should
- also have an option for the MIDI Mapper. See your Multimedia
- Extensions documentation for details on using the MIDI
- Mapper. 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 "No device" choice is usefull
- for freeing up a port so that it can be used by another application.
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- MEMORY
- Since Windows is a multitasking environment, many programs may share
- the available memory. SWEET SIXTEEN allocates the requested amount
- when it starts. This may seem as a drawback comparing other sequencer
- programs, but it makes the allocation of memory reliable and very,
- very fast.
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- In the MIDI/Memory Setup Dialog you choose the number of MIDI events
- you will need. If you at any time are running out of memory you will
- have to increase the number of MIDI events, save your work and restart
- SWEET SIXTEEN. Try to avoid allocating much more memory than you need
- since this will slow down the overall performerance of your system (Windows).
-
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- TIMER RESOLUTION
- The Timer Resolution Setting determines how fast a timer interrupt
- SWEET SIXTEEN uses. The smaller the setting, the faster the interrupt
- rate. The range possible is between 1 and 20. Normally you do not have
- to change this setting. But if your computer is a slow 386 and the timing
- of the music is not tight, you may select a setting greater than 10.
- If your computer is a fast 486 or higher you may select a setting less
- than 5. Faster interrupt rates will cause the computer to do more work,
- and therefore screen updates, etc. might become slower. This is also true
- if you run other programs at the same time.
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- !!!! NEW FEATURES !!!!
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- Things that didn't make it into the printed manual.
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- 24 TRACKS
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- SWEET SIXTEEN now has 24 tracks in each pattern. In Song Mode, where
- pattern 17 runs in parallel with the other patterns, you may have up
- to 48 tracks playing simultanesly.
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- The vertical window scroll bar has changed function. It now lets you
- scroll the tracks in the current pattern. Should any of the tracks be
- out of view, the area above the track numbers will be inverted to remind
- you of its existence.
-
- As before you may copy, delete or merge a track by clicking on the
- track name area and dragging it:
- 1. To the left to erase it.
- 2. Over an ocupied track to merge it.
- 3. To a blank track to copy it.
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- New functions are:
- 4. Holding down the shift key while dragging will swap the tracks.
- 5. Holding down the control key while dragging will move the track.
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- DEFAULT/ZERO VALUES
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- Holding down the control key while clicking the track parameters, will
- set the values to zero. This applies for Transpose, Loop, Delay, Compress
- and Velocity. This is also true for Pre Start and Transpose in the
- Arrange Box.
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- MIXER SCREEN
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- The Mixer screen has two new buttons:
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- "SOLO" which will solo a desired MIDI channel. Clicking a button while
- holding down the Control key makes it possible to "solo" several MIDI
- channels at the same time.
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- "MUTE" which will mute one or several MIDI channels.
- The buttons labeled "CHA" has changed name to "GRP" (group). As before,
- selecting those, "groups" two or more faders (moving one moves several).
-
- You may define the "Volume Fader Button" to any controller message by
- clicking the "Define..." button in the Mixer Screen. The default value
- is Volume/controller 7.
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- KEYBOARD EDITOR (side 39-42 in the manual)
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- When moving notes in the "grid area", the first direction you move in
- decides whethr you are changing the position or transposing. Adding the
- right mouse button or the control key, allows you to move in any direction.
- This saves a lot of double editing when you drag the wrong way by mistake.
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- It's now possible to delete the selected note events in the "grid area"
- by right clicking while holding the shift key down.
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- It's now also posible to insert and delete events in the Controll Display.
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- When inserting events in the Control Display, the current groove value
- dictates how close the events are inserted.
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- When displaying controller and pitchbend events in the Control Dispaly,
- events that has a center value (i.e. 64) while be drawn as black beams.
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- The use of the mouse/keyboard in the Controll Display is changed to the
- following:
- 1. Left clicking allows you to inspect a desired event.
- 2. Left clicking while holding down the shift key allows you to alter a
- desired event.
- 3. Right clicking allows you to insert an event at a desired time position.
- 4. Right clicking while holding down the shift key allows you to insert
- an event at a desired time position.
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- SIMPLE BARDISPLAY
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- In the Options Menu there is a new item called "Simple Bardisplay".
- With this item ticked all, all barcounters will display the position
- as Bars, Beats and Ticks instead of Bars, Beats, Groove and Ticks. Some
- people like it this way, so here you are.
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- // End of read me file.
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