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- Passport Multimedia Music Demo Version 3.3 Date: 9-18-92
-
- Software Requirements:
- This demo requires Microsoft Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions or
- Windows 3.1.
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- Hardware Requirements: A Multimedia PC with minimum configuration as listed.
- * 16 MHz 80386 or 80386SX based PC with at least 2 MB of RAM
- * 30 MB or larger Hard Disk
- * An Adlib, SoundBlaster or MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum card or...
- * An Optional MPU-401 MIDI card with outboard MT32 sound module or...
- * Any of the MIDI interfaces above with an outboard General MIDI Synth.
- * ..or.. An Optional LAPC card. (MIDI interface w/ sound module in one)
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- The songs that are included with this demo will playback and sound good
- on an Adlib, SoundBlaster or MediaVision style FM sound card, but if you
- have a MIDI out port and an outboard MT32 or CM64 sound module or an LAPC
- card or a General MIDI Synthesizer from Roland or some other manufacturer,
- then you can make the songs sound great with full professional arrangements.
- All music playback occurs via the MIDI Mapper and is therefore
- dependant on the MIDI Mapper being setup correctly for your system. A
- MIDIMAP.CFG file that contains setups for some of the configurations
- described above is provided with the Multimedia Extensions and with Windows
- 3.1. If you have a MIDI out port and some other outboard sound modules that
- you want to use, you would have to create your own patch map and MIDI Mapper
- setup in order to make the songs sound right on your system. IMPORTANT: If
- the MIDI Mapper is incorrectly setup, or if the current MIDI Mapper setup
- references a device or driver that is not installed, then MIDI playback will
- sound wrong or will not occur at all. The driver names in the MIDI Mapper
- setups must exactly match the names of the drivers that are actually
- installed. Sometimes different versions of the same driver have slightly
- different names. When this occurs, simply re-select the correct driver names
- in the MIDI Mapper setups.
-
- Installation:
- A simple Windows Setup program is included on these disks that will
- copy all the necessary files to a drive and directory that you specify.
- From the DOS prompt, insert disk #1 into a floppy drive and type...
- WIN A:SETUP <and Press Enter> ( or... WIN B:SETUP ).
- After installation is complete, you should run the MIDI Mapper from
- the Windows Control Panel and make sure that the MIDI Mapper setup is
- correct for your system.
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- Operation:
- The demo begins with the Jukebox Screen. Pressing any button on the
- Jukebox will play the indicated song. When the song is done playing, the
- Jukebox will automatically advance to the next song until the "Stop the
- Jukebox" button is reached. You can stop playback any time by pressing the
- "Stop the Jukebox" button. The other buttons on the bottom of the screen
- allow you to display information about Passport and Passport products and
- to run additional demos.
- The "Pro/Trax Demo" button will run a 2 minute "slide show" style demo
- about Master Tracks Pro and Trax, with an accompanying MIDI soundtrack. If
- you press any key during the slide show you will be returned to the Jukebox
- at the next page turn. Pressing the <Esc> key or clicking on the Exit
- Button at any time will quit the demo completely.
- The "Run Pro" and "Run Trax" buttons allow you to check out full
- functioning demos of these products. If you press either of these two
- buttons while a song is playing on the Jukebox then the currently playing
- song will be automatically loaded into Master Tracks Pro or Trax and played.
- The full functioning demos of Master Tracks Pro and Trax will not Save or
- Export files and will timeout after one minute of no user activity and
- return you to the Jukebox screen.
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