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Kula Software Inc.
6070 Marine Drive
West Vancouver, BC, Canada V7W 2S3
order line: 1-800-313-6070 tel: (604)921-5974 fax: (604)921-5973
CompuServe 72764,2254
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14 EZPNO v1.1a User's Guide
14 Copyright (c) 1994 by Kula Software Inc.
14 All Rights Reserved.
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15 Table of Chapters:
15 1. Introduction
15 2. Application Interface
15 3. File Management
15 4. EZPNO Editor
15 5. EZPNO Player
15 6. EZPNO Tutor
15 7. Key/Mouse Command Summary
15 8. I N D E X
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1.0.0
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14 Chapter 1
14 Introduction
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15 Sections for Chapter 1:
15 1. Overview
15 2. System Requirements
15 3. Installation
15 4. Sound Card / MIDI Interface drivers
15 5. Conventions Used in this Guide
15 6. Music Terms Used in this Guide
151.1.0 Overview
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EZPNO is an open-ended piano instruction program. Its goal is
to encourage people with little or no musical experience to learn
to play the piano. However, piano students of all levels will
find it to be a valuable learning aid. When supplied with
standard music notation, the 11EZPNO Tutor translates the score
into a step-by-step teaching tool that uses three-dimensional
computer graphics and audible music. With a MIDI keyboard, the
student may practice sight-reading of the sheet music as EZPNO
follows the progress. Music notation may be entered manually in
the 11EZPNO Editor by the user or piano instructor, or imported
from a standard MIDI file. Song files may be saved as EZPNO
files, or as standard MIDI files for use with other music
software.
Or just for fun, fire up the 11EZPNO Player which features
General-MIDI instrument selection by clef, graphic animation, and
song lyrics during playback for karaoke-style sing-alongs.
151.2.0 System Requirements
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IBM compatible PC with hard disk and 1 floppy disk drive
MS-DOS 3.3 or greater
VGA graphics adaptor
640K RAM
Mouse optional
Sound card / MIDI interface recommended
Math Coprocessor
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EZPNO features an full 88-key three-dimensional piano in regular
and zoom views. If you have a math coprocessor (DX chip), you may
set 11[3D draw] in the Global Settings dialogue box (Function key
15<F6>). This will enhance the three-dimensional quality of the
images. If you do not have a math coprocessor, the drawing will
be slow in this mode.
151.3.0 Installation
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EZPNO must be installed on the hard drive to operate correctly.
Insert the program diskette into drive A.
At the DOS prompt, type 15a:install and press 15<Enter>.
(replace b: for a: for floppy drive B)
15 Items for this Section:
15 1. Starting the Program
15 2. EZPNO command line switches
15 3. 3D Piano Image Installation
151.3.1 Starting the Program
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Be sure to be in the \EZPNO directory when you start the
program. EZPNO searches only the current directory for its
supporting files. Type 15e-z-p-n-o to start the application.
151.3.2 EZPNO command line switches
15───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
The following switches may be typed after 15'ezpno' at the DOS prompt:
15-? Display all command line arguments.
15-i[xx] Override MPU401 IRQ (default=2)
15-p[xxx] Override MPU401 port address (default=330h)
15-q Quiet mode.
15-pc Force PC speaker.
15-mpu Force Roland MPU401.
15-sb Force Sound Blaster.
15-gus Force UltraSound driver.
15-vmp Force Voyetra VMP driver.
15-x[xxxx] Detects and uses Extended memory(XMS) for program overlays.
Sometimes EZPNO loads program code from disk (eg. for
dialogue boxes, on-line help). With this switch enabled,
EZPNO can save overlays in XMS for faster retrieval. This may
improve program performance. A starting address may be set in
kilobytes (eg. ezpno -x1000: use XMS at address 1,000,000).
15-e Detects and uses Expanded memory(EMS) for program overlays.
See description above for XMS.
151.3.3 3D Piano Image Installation
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When loading EZPNO for the first time, it will run a quick installation
program to create 3D piano image files. Simply follow the instructions
on the screen.
151.4.0 Sound Card / MIDI Interface drivers
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EZPNO automatically searches for the sound card or driver installed on
your system. If no sound card or driver is found, EZPNO uses the PC speaker
for sound. If more than one card is installed, you must specify the card
desired on the command line (see 1.3.2 EZPNO command line switches).
The following sound cards are currently supported:
04Sound Card/MIDI Interface driver
Roland MPU401, or compatible -
Sound Blaster -
Advanced Gravis UltraSound ultramid
Others Voyetra VMP drivers
15 Items for this Section:
15 1. Roland MPU401
15 2. Sound Blaster
15 3. Advanced Gravis UltraSound
15 4. Other sound cards
151.4.1 Roland MPU401
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The default IRQ is 2. The default MIDI port address is 330h.
These settings may be overrided on the command line with the
15-i switch or the 15-p switch.
15eg. ezpno -i5 -p300
This command sets EZPNO to use IRQ 5 and port address 300h.
(see 1.3.2 EZPNO command line switches)
151.4.2 Sound Blaster
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The BLASTER environment variable must be set in order for EZPNO to
use the Sound Blaster card correctly.
15eg. SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T3
(A=Base port I/O address, I=IRQ number,
D=DMA channel, T=Sound Blaster version)
You should have a line that looks like this in your autoexec.bat file.
See the Sound Blaster user manual for more details.
To use the Sound Blaster MIDI interface adaptor, your card must have
DSP ROM version 2.00 or later.
151.4.3 Advanced Gravis UltraSound
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The ultramid driver must be loaded prior to running EZPNO. To load, simply
type 15'u-l-t-r-a-m-i-d' at the DOS prompt. The following command line
switches may be used with ultramid:
15-16 Use 16-bit patches for improved sound performance. The
default is 8-bit.
15-c Preloads a 256K, 512K 768K or 1024K patch library, depending
on how much memory you have on your UltraSound card.
15-f Unload ultramid from memory
15-m[xxx] [1-127] Sets the master volume for music. The default
volume is 127.
15-d[path] Use an alternate path for finding the ultramid configuration
file and for finding patches. The path should include a
trailing backslash (e.g.) -Dc:\game\
151.4.4 Other sound cards
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EZPNO supports many more sound cards via the VMP drivers created by
Voyetra Technologies. Call Kula Software for more information
as to how to obtain these drivers.
151.5.0 Conven