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- Program name : MELODY ASSISTANT
- Version : 1.1.3
- Date : March 1998
- Authors : Didier & Olivier Guillion
- Adress : 22 rue Pierre d'Aragon, 31200 Toulouse, France
- E-Mail : myriad@hol.fr
- Web : http://members.aol.com/GBShare
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Installation
- 3. Documentation
- 4. Fee
- 5. Our other softwares
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- 1. Introduction
- ----------------
-
- Melody is an useful software for computer-assisted tunes writing and
- composition.
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- Easy to use, it offers a friendly interface and powerful features :
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- - Score editor
- If you use often printed scores, it'll be easy to enter them on your
- computer : Melody processes almost all the break symbols used in musical
- writing, and uses them while playing the music. A powerful editor allows
- you to place and move easily the notes on the staves.
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- - Digital output
- A complete digital instrument database is integrated to Melody, which
- gives hi-quality musics, even if you don't own professional hardware.
-
- - Digital sound editor
- You can record your own sounds from a CD or a microphone (or load a sound
- file like .AIFF or .WAV), and use them as instruments in your tunes.
-
- - Compatibility with other softwares
- Your tune files can be played either on PC or Macintosh, since Melody
- exists on both platforms. Melody allows also to import and export musics
- in MIDI 0 or 1 or CMF format.
- Melody can read Band In A Box style files and MOD or S3M files.
- Exporting the whole tune in AIFF or WAV format allows your music to be
- integrated in multimedia projects, or to be written later on an audio CD.
- Exports are reserved to registered copies.
-
- - Tablatures and chord diagrams
- Guitarists and Bassists haven't been forgotten : Melody calculates
- tablatures and displays the chord diagrams. You can even define your own
- stringed instrument and calculate tablatures for it !
- A complete library of guitar chord diagrams is given with Melody. You can
- complete this library by defining easily your own chords.
-
- - Karaoke
- You can associate lyrics to a tune, and let the music play in Karaoke
- mode. Of course, Melody loads and processes the MIDI Karaoke file format
- (.KAR).
-
- - Graphics and colors
- Graphic in black and white or color (in BMP or PICT format) can be
- inserted at any point on the score.
- All the symbols can be colorized, globally or individually, in order to
- enhance the attractiveness of your document.
- You can drop texts and comments where you want on the score.
-
- - Tune printing
- Printing is widely user-defineable : you can define integrally the
- printing format.
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- 2. Intallation
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- Start the "Install.exe" application and follow the instructions.
- Note : The Windows 3.1x users must install beforehand the Microsoft's
- 32 bits compatibility kit named "Win32s".
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- 3. Documentation
- -----------------
-
- The software manual is given in RTF format in the "Docs" folder
- (Docs\English.rtf). We engage you to read it with your usual word
- processor, and to print it.
- However, if some problems aren't solved in the software manual, fell free
- to contact us by postal or electronic mail.
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- 4. Fee
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-
- If you like this software and want to use it steadily, we ask for a
- $15 fee.
- Once this fee received, we'll send you back very quickly a personal
- registration code which grants you the access to all the features :
- unlimited number of symbols on a staff, music exports in WAV, AIFF or
- MIDI format, key change at any point in the score ...
-
- Of course, this personal registration number will remain valid for all
- the future versions of Melody.
-
- If you want to receive at home, by postal mail, the next releases of
- Melody, add $4 for each release. If you have an Internet access, the next
- releases will be available on our Web site, and on most of the shareware
- archive services, like Shareware.com, SoftSeek, etc.
-
- If you want to receive the extended version of the digital sound database,
- add $6.
-
- To register your copy, click on the "Register" button in the first window,
- and choose the payment mode (credit card or other).
- Then, you just have to follow the instructions.
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- 5. Our other softwares
- -----------------------
-
- Sapiens : Sapiens is an adventure-arcade game that brings you back 100 000
- years ago for discovering the everyday life of the Homo Sapiens
- Neandertalensis.
- You incarnate a young Hunter from the Light-Foot tribe : you'll have to
- explore your territory, keep up friendly contacts with the other tribes,
- trade objects, make assegai heads and fight for your life...
- The movements are displayed in 3D view and a digital music energizes the
- game.
- Fee : US $10
-
- Awale : It is one of the most ancient games still played. The Masai say
- that the Awale was invented by Sindillo, the son of the first man,
- Maitoumbe, and was originally called geshe.
- This fascinating African game (also known as Awele, Oware, Wari, ...) has
- been here very attractively adapted on microcomputer. Play against the
- computer and try to defeat him.
- A very realistic game, with solid wood and clattering stones.
- Its progressive game levels, its 16 different variations from all over
- the world and its Internet features that allow two players to challenge
- over
- the Internet makes Awale the best Mancala game ever.
- Fee : US $10
-
- Harmony Assistant : Harmony is the Melody's big brother. To a more
- complete description of this software, refer to the dedicated chapter in
- the documentation file.
- Harmony is a commercial software, sold $65. You can order an evaluation
- copy (complete software, but without save and print options) for $6.
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