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DeluxeMusic® 2.0 -- Late Notes
This Late_Notes file contains notes about late breaking changes, tips, and
information about the product which were too late to be included in
the manual.
Thank you for your purchase of DeluxeMusic 2.0. This product was brought
to you through the sweat, blood, and tears of many dedicated people who
still believe there is a place for another music product on the Amiga.
Please support your Amiga Dealers and Amiga Developers by spreading the
word and not the software.
============================================================================
Version 2.0 6/26/93
1. There are a few predefined example ARexx macros included in
this release. They are installed automatically in your Rexx: assigned
directory. You can assign those macros to Function Keys in the program
by choosing Assign Macro from the Macros Menu, opening the file you
want assigned to the chosen Function Key, and pressing the MODIFY button.
These macros are included as examples of the type of macros and ARexx
scripts that can be created and written for use in DeluxeMusic.
Choosing Save Settings from the Settings Menu will save your Assigned
Macros as tooltypes (see the DeluxeMusic Reference Card for more info
on tooltype settings.)
2. The global ARexx port name for DeluxeMusic gets only the name of the
currently active window. If the window is deactivated and some other
window becomes active (Workbench for example), messages sent through
the global port will bounce and fail. Users should always directly
address a particular document through the document's port rather than
through the global port.
3. For best results in printing, set your Score width to equal the Print
width. The Print width is the current page and paper settings you
may have set for your Printer Preferences. Choosing Print As... from
the Project Menu displays and lets you edit the current paper width
for your chosen Preferences Printer. The program's Score width is
modified in the Score Setup Window under the Settings Menu.
4. There is an additional attribute to the ARexx commands: CHANGEITEM and
CHANGESELECTED. The additional parameter is NOFIX which disables
the re-sorting of notes while editing a score via an ARexx script.
Proper use of this new parameter is as follows:
a. Lock the GUI while editing
b. Lock the display while editing
c. Use new ARexx command RESORTEVENTS when finished editing.
5. There is a French Catalog included with this release that displays
DeluxeMusic's menus and requestors in French. To enable this
feature, you must copy the Catalog drawer included on your DeluxeMusic
program disk to your DeluxeMusic drawer on your hard drive and set
the Catalogs tooltype of the DMusic icon. At the Workbench, select
the DMusic icon and choose Information from the Icon or Workbench menu.
Select New, and type:
Catalog=Device:DeluxeMusic/Catalogs/Français/dmcs.catalog
The French c is typed alt-c on an English keyboard. Device is the name
of the hard drive partition your DeluxeMusic directory is installed on.
Floppy users only need to set the tooltype on their installed disk.
On a default floppy install, the tooltype would be set to:
Catalog=DeluxeMusic2.0:DeluxeMusic/Catalogs/Français/dmcs.catalog
Note: Using foreign language catalogs requires AmigaDOS 2.1 or greater.
6. The Set Tempo requestor has an additional button:
Set Default Tempo: this button sets a global default tempo for a score.
7. The loading, converting, and reformatting of old DMCS scores into
DeluxeMusic, especially large scores, will take longer the first
time. Once saved out as CMUS, the time it takes to open it again
should be less, although, please be aware that the CMUS format saves
much more information than the DMCS format previously did, so in some
cases the load time will be just as long or longer than before.
8. Opening and Saving scores in Simple MIDI File format is not perfect.
We wanted to give you a way to load and save files to and from
different platforms, but please be forwarned that complicated score
files with multiple tracks, complex rhythms, times, etc. may not
load or save to your liking in this program. We have tried to make the
MIDI file i/o support as good as possible given the time we had.
Note: If there are eight or fewer tracks in a score, it is saved
as a MIDI Type 0 file. If there are more than eight tracks in a
score, it is saved as a MIDI Type 1 file.
9. The DMPlayer is for non-commercial distribution only. Licensing for
commercial distribution is available. Instruments are copyright and
not for redistribution without written permission. We suggest saving
your scores for distribution in CMUS with embedded instruments.
10. The Top Margin feature in the Score Setup window is ignored when there
are more staves in a score than can fit on a page.
11. Amiga DOS 1.3 Users only: The DMPlayer requires the iffparse.library
to be installed on your Workbench disk in the libs: assigned drawer.
For the use of menus and a file requestor, the DMPlayer requires the
ASL13.library installed on your Workbench disk in the libs: drawer.
DeluxeMusic® 2.0 is © Copyright 1985, 1993 Electronic Arts®, Inc.
DMPlayer 1.0 is © Copyright 1993, Electronic Arts®, Inc.
DeluxeMusic® is a registered trademark of Electronic Arts®, Inc.
Amiga®, AmigaDOS®, and Workbench®
are registered Trademarks of Commodore Business Machines.
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