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Description
Club MID is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to play standard MIDI files. One window holds one standard MIDI file, and displays it's current tempo, System Exclusive status, Control Change status and Voice Name, Panpot, Pitch Bend, Level for each MIDI channel.
List window can have up to 32640 MIDI files to be played back sequentially, or random order.
This application is best for those who wants to be with music all the time.
Features :
Fat Binary.
Macintosh Drag and Drop support.
GM, GS, XG format compatible.
32part Standard MIDI File playback support.
This application requires :
Macintosh with 68020 or higher / PowerPC
System7 + QuickTime or System7.1 or later
Apple MIDI Manager or OMS (Open Music System)
MIDI tone generator or QuickTime Musical Instruments
How to use
1-1 Use with OMS
Choose "Choose device..." in OMS menu, and select tone genarator.
* You can get OMS (Open Music System) from Opcode web:
http://www.opcode.com/
1-2 Use with MIDI Manager
Launch "PachBay" application, bundled with Apple MIDI Manager package, after launched Club MID. Then connect output port of Club MID to Modem or Printer port.
* You can get MIDI Manager from Apple web:
http://www.info.apple.com/
Apple.Software.Updates/US/Macintosh/Unsupported
MIDI Management Tools 2.0.2
2 Open and play standard MIDI file
Choose "Open..." in File menu and select standard MIDI file you want to play.
If "AutoPlay" item in Control menu is checked, it automatically start playing just after opening the file. If "AutoPlay" item is not checked, choose "Play" item in control menu, or double click inside window.
To stop, choose "Stop" in Control menu. To pause, choose "Pause" in Control menu.
Double clicking inside the window let stop playing.
3 What's shown in window
Current tempo, System Exclusive status, Control Change status and Voice Name, Panpot, Picth Bend, Level for each MIDI channel are shown in window. Each item changes as play goes on.
Note that Level display does not show the real sound level you are hearing.
Choosing "Get Info" in File menu shows you how many MIDI messages in the standard midi file.
If you see '*' character in "Note On" column, number of Note On and Note Off for the channel are not the same.
4 Play List window
Choose "New List" in File menu to make new list window.
You can appnd up to 32640 standard MIDI files into this list, just by dragging & dropping them from Finder. From version 1.0.1, you can drop Folder(s). In that case, all of the standard MIDI files insied the folder(s) are appended.
You can re-arrange the sequence by drag & drop. To remove from list, drag it to Trash in Finder.
Choosing "Get Info" in File menu, shows you how many MIDI files in the list window.
If you hold down Option key while choosing Play item in Control menu, you can listen first 10 seconds of each songs. (Intro Scan Mode)
Register
Read "How to register" file and follow the instructions.
Distribution
Club MID is shareware. It may distributed freely as long as it has no potential for profit (direct or indirect) by the distributor. Other distribution arrangements must be made with the author in advance. Club MID must be distributed in its original form as the file Club MID 1.0.4.cpt which expands into these files (•) and folders (/):
/ Club MID 1.0.4
• Club MID
• Read Me
• How to register
• Register
You can change compression method without modifying the contents.
Warranty/Liability
This software is licensed on an “as is” basis. The author provides no warranty of any sort. The user of this software assumes complete responsibility for any direct or indirect damages due to use or misuse of this software.
Questions/Comments
The fastest way to ask questions and make comments is by sending e-mail to the author:
setsu@kagi.com (Internet)
Setsu (AOL)
If you don’t have e-mail access, direct your questions and comments to the author by snail mail:
Takashi Suzuki
338-45 Miyagawa Haruno-cho
Shuchi-gun Shizuoka 437-0604
JAPAN
Version history
v1.0.4 : 01/05/96
• 32part Standard MIDI File support.
• Faster file loading.
• System Exclusive messages which exceed 249byte were not sent correctlly --> Fixed.
• Intro Scan Mode added.
v1.0.3 : 09/16/96
• Coudn't play standard MIDI files which have "Output port" Meta Events --> Fixed.
v1.0.2 : 09/10/96
• Play/Pause/Stop item in Control menu is enabled when you are playing List window and frontmost window is not the List window.
• There was possibility to crash while playing some Standard MIDI Files --> Fixed.
• Better playing performance when Club MID is not the current, ie. frontmost, application.
• Mac OS8 window size aware.
v1.0.1 : 06/28/96
• Start playing when you open standard MIDI file without checking "Auto Play". In that condition, Level Meter is not shown, and in most cases your Mac crashes. --> Fixed.
• Now you can drop folder(s) into Play List Window.
• Crashed when played standard MIDI file which does not have Tempo information. --> Fixed.
• Double lines drawn in PAN and/or PB Meter when you Play->Stop->Play the same file. --> Fixed
