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- L . M . P
- The Laser Music Processor
-
- LMPDEMO is an unlicensed version of the registered program and
- may be freely distributed to friends, neighbors, relatives,
- foreign correspondents, computer club, favorite bulletin board,
- senator and congressman. LMPDEMO behaves exactly like the registered
- version with the exception of saving files to disk and producing
- a print-out that contains a demo message across the page.
-
- Context-sensitive help screens have been included for the Edit,
- Direct, and Buffered MIDI modes. They are accessible on each menu
- by clicking on the Help Option box or pressing the F1 function key.
-
- HARDWARE:
-
- o 512 K of ram is recommended
-
- o Laser Printer: HP Laser Jet 500+/II/IIP/100% compatable, or
- any 9/24 pin dot-matrix graphics printer.
-
-
- OPTIONAL HARDWARE:
-
- o Mouse (Microsoft or 100% compatable) highly recommended
-
- o MPU-401 or compatable MIDI interface (used for direct input
- and playback only)
-
- o Hard Disk recommended
-
- ORDER INFO:
-
- You may order L.M.P from your local dealer or TEACH Services,
- 182 Donivan Road, Brushton, New York 12916 (518) 358-2125 with
- Visa and Mastercard. Price is $99.95 + shipping of $5.00 UPS.
- Dealer inquiries invited.
-
- HARD DISK INSTALLATION =======================================================
-
- To use your demo on a hard disk, make a subdirectory called LMP and
- copy all the files to this subdirectory.
-
- FLOPPY DISK INSTALLATION =====================================================
-
- To use your demo on a single floppy disk, first prepare two formated floppy
- disks labeled Program Disk and Work Disk. Copy to the Program Disk:
-
- LMPDEMO.EXE
- *.DRV
- MUSIC.CFG
-
- Next copy the following files to the Work Disk:
-
- *.M*
- *.SMF
- *.SFP
-
- Place the Program Disk in drive A and type:
-
- LMPDEMO
-
- Remove the Program Disk after it loads and replace with the
- Work Disk and continue.
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Every order comes with a 160 page fully illustrated manual. A brief overview
- is listed below for our demo users:
-
- To start LMP at your computer prompt press:
-
- LMPDEMO
-
- L.M.P will auto-select the correct video driver for your system, or
- you can override with a single letter arugument such as:
-
- LMPDEMO X
-
- where X is the display your computer uses. H = Herc, C = CGA,
- A = ATT6300, M = Mono EGA, E = EGA, and V = VGA.
-
- After the L.M.P opening screen displays, you will be in the Edit
- Mode Screen. Press F3 to list the available files. This will display
- the Manuscript Library where you may choose any sheet of music to
- display by selecting with your cursor or mouse and pressing enter.
-
- After choosing a music file to load, you will return to the Edit Screen
- and you will see in the bottom right you will see a large note in a box.
- This is the Note Status Box. It displays the note value and stem direction.
- Placing your mouse pointer in the box and pressing the right
- mouse button will change stem direction. The backslash key will also
- change note values. The numbered keys 1-6 will place a note at the
- edit cursors position. 1 being a whole note, 2 a half note, etc.
- with the 7-0 keys placing accidental information.
-
- F1 at any time will display the numonic chart of commands. Press the
- indicated letters in their order to obtain the desired result.
-
- MIDI mode is in two sections:
-
- o Press MID for DIRECT mode (play direct to screen in STEP TIME)
- Use the backspace key to make corrections and the M key to place
- measure lines.
-
- o Press MIB for BUFFERED mode (play into a MIDI buffer in REAL TIME).
- Press N for single note scoring, M for full measure scoring, or P
- to page scoring.
-
- Load the sample file called SYMBOLS and print it out for help with symbols.
-
- With a ASCII word editor read and edit the MUSIC.CFG file to help with the
- configuration of your system and printer.
-
- This demo version of L.M.P has all the same features of the regular version
- with the exception that the save function has been removed. Also, the title
- font does not contain any punctuation to conserve space on this disk.
-
- New features to version 3.2 include:
-
- o Print to file (great on networks) and LPT1/2 support
-
- o Quanitization
-
- o Score by Note, Measure, or Paged compleately
-
- o Adjustable beat & metronome defaults
-
- o Flashing cursor/VLS (Variable Length Symbols) during editing.
-
- o Intelligent accidentals depending on key
-
- o Multiple page documents (100 page max)
-
- o Automatic note to staff justification
-
- o Address and Interrupt (IRQ) driven and user selectible
-
- o Merge files together
-
- o Copy block function now copies all VLS information
-
- o MUCH MUCH MORE!