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- This version of PLAY IT BY EAR is intended to be used for demonstration
- purposes only. The program is fully functional. After 10 minutes of
- use the program will abruptly end.
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- Please refer to the on-line help feature for information on
- the general use of the program. This file simply covers some undocumented
- features and emphasizes some important things that you should know before
- using the program.
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- MOUSE SUPPORT. You MUST have a mouse installed on your computer to use
- Play It By Ear.
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- USING THE PC INTERNAL SPEAKER. The IBM PC internal speaker hardware was
- never intended to be used for serious musical performance. The sound
- quality is adequate and the pitch is accurate. Unfortunatly, this is only
- true for single voice melodies. Simultaneous pitches, like intervals and
- chords, are not feasible. We have seen some resourceful programmers make
- the PC hardware approximate chords, but for the purpose of ear training the
- results just were not good enough. Therefore, if you do not own sound
- enhancing hardware, Play It By Ear will arpeggiate, i.e. play like a melody,
- all interval and chord forms.
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- MORE ABOUT THE INTERNAL SPEAKER. The volume slider has no effect on the
- sounds coming out of your PC internal speaker. Once again, the hardware
- is too limited to make this practical. In addition, some MIDI keyboards
- may not be sensitive to note volume commands. These keyboards will not
- respond to the volume slider either. To regulate the volume, simply use
- the keyboard's volume control.
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- COMMAND LINE OPTIONS. Play It By Ear supports HERCULES, EGA/VGA and CGA
- video adapters. At the start of the program the highest resolution mode
- of your hardware is detected and used. You may force the program to use a
- specific video mode by invoking the program as such:
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- EAR C (for CGA)
- EAR E (for EGA)
- EAR V (for VGA)
- EAR M (for Hercules).
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- At the end of each exercise drill a message pops up that indicates how
- you did for that particular response: "OK" or "OOPS!". For you power users
- a command line option is provided to suppress this feature: EAR X. This
- option may be mixed with one of the above video options, e.g. EAR C X.
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- SOUND BLASTER SUPPORT. If you own a Sound Blaster card you will need
- to run the program using the "S" command line option. A convenient BAT
- file, EAR_SB.BAT, has been included on the master disk that does this for
- you. So, to make the program recognize your card, type either of the
- following at the DOS prompt:
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- EAR S
- EAR_SB
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- SOUND BLASTER MIDI. Version 1.00 of Play It By Ear does not support the
- MIDI expansion module of the Sound Blaster card. If you own the Sound
- Blaster card with the MIDI module, or think that you may purchase one in
- the future, please be sure to fill out and send in the registration form
- so we can let you know when it is supported.
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- Play It By Ear is available directly from the publisher:
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- Ibis Software
- 90 New Montgomery Street, Suite 820
- San Francisco, CA 94105
- (415) 546-1917, voice (415) 453-0346, Fax
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- It is also distributed through the following national software
- dealers (among others):
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- Egghead Software
- Soft Warehouse
- Waldensoft (Walden Books)
- Software, Etc. (B. Dalton Books)
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