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- Midisoft Recording Session, Version 1.07 Demo
- Information For New Users
-
- Thank you for trying Midisoft Recording Session. We greatly look
- forward to satisfying your sequencing needs now and for many years to come.
-
- This version is for demonstration only, and the SAVE features have
- been disabled. This represents one example in our line of business,
- entertainment, and educational music software products. For information
- on this and other products, please contact:
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- Midisoft Corporation
- PO Box 1000
- Bellevue WA 98009
- USA
- Phone: 206-881-7176
- FAX: 206-883-1368
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-
- ISSUES YOU MIGHT ENCOUNTER WITH THIS RELEASE:
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- 1) If you find that occasionally you lose the mouse cursor, you might be
- encountering a hardware conflict between Mouse and MIDI that occurs
- rarely in Enhanced-mode Windows (on VERY FEW machines). If you use our
- program in Standard-mode Windows (Start Windows with WIN/S), this
- problem disappears.
- 2) If you have trouble getting MIDI Input, the problem is very likely
- a hardware interrupt conflict. Take inventory of the other cards you
- have in your system, and make sure the MIDI card has a unique
- interrupt level and I/O address. Note: The Windows Drivers for MIDI
- use Interrupts only for MIDI In, not for MIDI Out. So if MIDI Out
- (playing) seems to work fine, that is NO indication that you have your
- card's interrupt set correctly.
- 3) If you have trouble getting playback, we recommend you simplify your test
- configuration by simply using the Media Player provided in Windows.
- This program will play back any of the MIDI files provided with
- Recording Session provided that you have configured your MIDI Mapper
- to playback the low channels (1-10). If you can successfully get
- the MIDI Mapper to playback within Windows, then you will be able
- to get Midisoft Recording Session to playback by selecting MIDI Drivers/
- Multimedia Drivers/MIDI Mapper from the Setup Menu.
- 4) When in Score View, if you have trouble selecting notes to edit, you might
- try changing the clef to make sure the notes appear on the staff.
- Another option is to start a Click & Drag region from within the staff
- and end it outside the staff. Similarly, to select rests (for the
- Splice Cut/Paste operations), do so by selecting click & drag region
- that includes the rest.
- 5) If you are running on a 2Mb computer, your usage of memory will affect
- the operation of our program. We recommend that you use HIMEM.SYS
- (to access the high 384K Extended Ram), but don't tie up any
- RAM into SMARTDRV.SYS. If Midisoft Recording Session claims not to have
- enough memory, Windows might not be correctly detecting high memory.
- On a 2 Mb configuration, we recommend you ascertain that Windows has
- at least 900K available before running Recording Session. You can
- check your available memory by selecting "About Program Manager" in
- the Windows Program Manager's Help menu. We do not run in 640K
- machines (and thus not Real Mode Windows), nor do we suggest
- using Expanded RAM (Windows runs best using EXTENDED RAM, not
- EXPANDED), or trying to run on a 1 Megabyte computer.
- 6) Because Midisoft Recording Sessions' MIDI drivers require instant access to
- memory, problems can be avoided by not using memory managers (such as
- earlier versions of QEMM) which intercept and map memory calls.
- We recommend that you simply use the HIMEM.SYS driver that comes with
- Windows. Similarly, TSR programs that are feeding off your computer's
- clock can also cause problems. If you are getting machine crashes or
- lock ups, we suggest clearing out your machine's startup files
- (AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS) to the bare minimum (even remove DOS shells)
- and try running Recording Session again before contacting our
- technical support department.
- Specifically, remove non-essential entries in your CONFIG.SYS
- and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, as well as bringing down the FILES= and
- BUFFERS= values in your CONFIG.SYS. If you are using DOS 5 (or later),
- also make sure that you have a DOS=HIGH entry in CONFIG.SYS.
- 7) Currently, our stand-alone Roland drivers are more efficient and more
- robust than those included in Windows 3.1. For this reason, we
- recommend that if you have a Roland-compatible or Midisoft Midiface
- card, use our drivers instead of those in the Win31/Multimedia
- Extensions. To do so, select "Midisoft Drivers" from the
- "MIDI Interface" dialog box.
- 8) A little hint about changing a note's pitch: Use the SHARP and FLAT
- tools (in the note palette) to click on a note and change by
- a half-step. This can be used repeatedly to change a pitch as
- far as you desire.
- 9) We recommend you read the file entitled MAPHELP.TXT for some hints
- on solving problems related to the MIDI Mapper.
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