
                    A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA TEXT !!!
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To use this disk at all, you will need an Amiga with a minimum of 1 MegaByte of
RAM. You will not be able to load any of the scores into a machine with only
512k of RAM. Sorry about that!

For those of you curious enough to click on these icons from the WorkBench I'd
like to say a few more words about the disk. In order to listen to the music
on this disk, you will have to boot from it. Unless of course, you have a copy
of SONIX. Read on...

If you have 1 MB of CHIP-RAM (i.e. "Fatter" Agnus) you can load SONIX and set
the INSTRUMENTS directory to RHAPSODY:INSTRUMENTS and the SCORES directory to
RHAPSODY:SCORES and then load Rhapsody.SMUS into SONIX. This will take quite a
while! You can then have a look at how I "did it"!! Please feel free to use the
instruments in your own masterpieces but be warned that some of them will sound
a bit odd because they are made as "transposing" instruments, in other words
they are not mapped in the key of C Major but in B flat or A etc. This was
facilitated by EZ-FM and SYNTHIA PRO's transposition capabilities and made
entering the music in SONIX a lot simpler (a lot of the instruments called for
in Rhapsody in Blue are transposing instruments, like the B flat clarinet and
the Horn in F for example, and had I not been able to preset the key of these
instruments, score entry in SONIX would have been much more difficult).

Some of the .INSTR files (like those that begin with p or mp or "Soft" etc) are
just different volume settings of the base instrument (the .SS file).

Those of you with 1 MB of memory (but only 512k of CHIP-RAM) can load the .SMUS
files which are named with bar numbers (187-297.SMUS for example) into SONIX
for examination and instrument-nicking! Set your directories from SONIX as
above.

PLEASE REMEMBER THOUGH THAT THE ARRANGEMENTS AND SONIX SCORES HEREON ARE
COPYRIGHT RESERVED ROB BAXTER/THE DESKTOP MUSIC WORKSHOP. Thank you!

If you only have 512k of CHIP-RAM, when you listen to the music on this disk,
my little picture will not be displayed. That is why I have provided an icon to
enable you to view it from WorkBench (can't see why you'd want to though!). The
picture has been crunched so it cannot be readily loaded into DPaint etc.

To recap. 1 MB of CHIP-RAM is recommended to get the best from this version of
Rhapsody in Blue. 512k of CHIP-RAM has been catered for but you still need 1 MB
of RAM overall.

ENJOY....

                                               ROB BAXTER. Oct. 1991
