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2 Welcome to MIDIJOY2.1 What is MIDIJOY?MIDIJOY is a program to enjoy midi. It
is no sequencer, no editor, no patch-librarian, no dump-utility,
no.. The data that are generated by the mouse,
the information hidden in the screen keyboards (called klaviers
from now on to avoid confusion with that qwerty thing I'm typing
on), is scale-organized. You can make your own scales, and the
midi output can be controlled extensively. There are a lot of
parameters that can be set. You can play immediately with MIDIJOY,
but there is a lot to explore to get better results. 2.2 Marsan DMCMarsan that's me (Harry Koopman) and DMC stands for Digital Music Center. When Atari was really alive I wrote applications for the machine, and nowadays I do other things. You can take a look at http://members.tripodnet.nl/hkoopman/marsan.html 2.3 MIDIJOY-discWell, those times are over since internet.
MIDIJOY is freeware now, and downloadable. Please, if you give
it to your friends, keep the files together.
Files generated by MIDIJOY versions 1 and 2 can be read by version 3, but not the other way around. 2.4 The computerAtari ST, Mega ST, or STe, with 1 Mb memory,
and a monochrome high resolution monitor. I never tested the
512 K ST, it might work. MIDIJOY accepts all TOS-versions and
KAOS also. When MIDIJOY was written the Falcon did not exist
yet. Version 3.15 does not run on TT and Falcon. When I get a
lot of requests investigations to portability to TT/Falcon will
be made. 2.5 DEF.MDJWhen DEF.MDJ is found in the same folder as MIDIJOY it is loaded by MIDIJOY at start up. When not found MIDIJOY uses its internal settings, called PROGRAM.MDJ. You create a DEF.MDJ by saving a setup with that name. Please do experiment, and also try disabling DEF.MDJ for once, renaming it to DEF.MDX or something like that, to start with PROGRAM.MDJ. The best thing is to create your own DEF.MDJ to suit your needs. 2.6 Midi connectionThis chapter is like jamming in an open
door. Look at the back of your Atari, and see what other computer
manufacturers have forgotten.. 2.7 AZERTY keyboard layoutAs for the reference to keys in MIDIJOY, MIDIJOY can be set up for AZERTY. Place a file with the name AZERTY.MDJ in the MIDIJOY folder, and restart. The contents of the file AZERTY.MDJ does not matter, but the most simple thing is writing it from MIDIJOY as an MDJ file. The AZERTY-mode does not change the absolute key locations of the keys themselves, but only causes the display of MIDIJOY showing the right keys. 2.8 Help screensThere are help-screens in MIDIJOY to make
it more easy to refer to the manual. These help-screens show
numbers. We call this numbers HELP-numbers
and the manual refers
to them with help 33, help 8
and so on. When in a screen, press [HELP],
but in the main screen you have to use [SHIFT] +
[?]. [HELP] was already in use (to activate AUTOMOUSE).
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