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- MIDI Machine V0.89 Beta (c) Excel Progs/TOW Development 1994
-
- I. Info about Excel Progs/TOW Development
- II. Introduction
- III. What You Need
- IV. Running MIDI Machine
- V. Support Info.
- VI. Registering
- VII. Revisions
-
- I. Info about Excel Progs/Tow Development
-
- MIDI Machine V0.89 Beta by Excel Progs/TOW Development
-
- MIDI Machine was written by Andrew Malek of Excel Progs, and is
- distributed by Joe Passmore of TOW Development.
-
- For more information, contact Excel Progs at:
-
- Excel Progs
- c/o Andrew Malek
- 434 Gallaher View Road Apt 60
- Knoxville, TN 37919
-
- Or, contact either Excel Progs or TOW Development via The Other World
- BBS of Knoxville, TN.
-
- TOW BBS: (615)-577-9342, 7 14.4k lines, Games, No Ratio, More
-
- II. Introduction
-
- Congratulations for choosing MIDI Machine as your MS-Windows(c) MIDI
- player! Midi Machine is the latest of Excel Progs line of excellent
- products for the IBM(c)/clone computers, and like all EP products, it
- is backed by full support.
-
- Midi Machine allows you to play the .MID (MIDI) files that are seen
- all throughout the world. Midi Machine also allows you to play the
- standard .WAV (WAVEAUDIO) files. MIDIs cover all genres of music,
- including:
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- o Jazz/Blues
- o Rock/Pop
- o Soft Rock/Easy Listening
- o Classical
-
- and many more styles of music are represented by this music file
- format.
-
- WAVs cover all types of sounds, including:
-
- o Instruments
- o Music Clips
- o Voice-Mail
- o System Events
-
- and many more types of sound files are represented by this audio
- file format.
-
- III. What you Need
-
- In order to play music with Midi Machine, you must have:
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- o MS-Windows 3.1 or higher
- o A Midi-compatible sound card (SB, SBPro, GUS,..etc)
- o Installed MIDI drivers for Windows
- o VBRUN300.DLL (found at many fine BBS's and distribution networks)
-
- If you wish to only play WAV files, the midi drivers and midi-
- compliant sound card are not needed. You will, however, need WAV
- support and drivers.
-
- IV. Running MIDI Machine
-
- In order to run Midi Machine, you need to copy, unpack,..etc the files
- you received. Next, copy the MCI.VBX and ANIBUTON.VBX files to your main
- Windows directory. Get VBRUN300.DLL from your distribution site (or The
- Other World BBS), and place it to your Windows directory. Add the Midi
- Machine icon to your program manager or equivalent (or just run it
- straight using your pm's run command).
-
- Midi Machine will execute and bring you up to the main status window.
- This window is divided into several parts:
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- o Drive selection window
-
- This will allow you to choose which drive Midi Machine will
- pull the Sound files from.
-
- o Directory selction window
-
- This will allow you to choose which directory Midi Machine
- will pull the Sound files from.
-
- o File selection window
-
- This will allow you to choose the individual Sounds that you
- wish to add to your playing queue (see below).
-
- o Sound Playing queue
-
- This will be a list of Sounds that you have selected to play,
- in order of selection (note that the order the Sound files are
- selected are NOT exactly the order in which that they will be
- played! See below for more options).
-
- o Buttons
-
- Buttons are the method by which you can tell MIDI machine
- what to do. These buttons are as follows:
-
- (R)ename
-
- Allows you to rename or move a sound.
-
- (D)elete
-
- Allows you to delete a sound.
-
- (I)nfo
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- Allows you to get information on a sound. Note that this can
- be done ONLY when you are not playing any music.
-
- (A)dd
-
- Allows you to add a sound file from the file selection window
- to your Sound playing queue.
-
- Add A(l)l
-
- Allows you to add ALL sound files from the file selection
- window to your Sound playing queue.
-
- R(e)move
-
- Removes a sound from your playing queue.
-
- (C)lear
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- Clears ALL sounds from the queue.
-
- A(b)out
-
- Information about Midi Machine
-
- (H)elp
-
- Displays help about Midi Machine
-
- Setup
-
- Goes to setup screen, where you can choose the animated icon which
- will be displayed when you play MIDIs and WAVs (the two
- groups allow separate icons.)
-
- E(x)it
-
- Exits Midi Machine
-
- (S)tart
-
- Start playing sounds!
-
- (N)ext
-
- Skip to the next sound.
-
- S(T)OP!
-
- Abort all sounds. Keeps any songs in the queue available for
- playing.
-
- (P)ause/(P)lay
-
- This button changes depending upon the state of the sound.
- You can temporarily pause the sound output and then resume
- later.
-
- o Check boxes
-
- These check boxes allow you to change the order in which
- Sounds are being played. Simply click on the boxes to
- change the playing direction.
-
- Ran(d)om
-
- Plays the sound files randomly.
-
- (B)kwrds
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- Plays the sound files backwards.
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- C(o)ntin.
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- Plays the sounds continuously. This button is only visible
- when you are in selecting, not playback, mode.
-
- V. Support Info.
-
- This is a beta version of the upcoming full release of MIDI Machine.
- All possible time has been spent removing errors from this program.
- I hate receiving Windows programs that constantly crash, and I'm sure
- you do also.
-
- Under normal usage, the program has been known to work very well. Very
- infrequently (and under non-normal usage, as the main beta-tester can
- attest) the program has hung on a WAV. If this does occur, pressing
- the "Next" button should continue the program on its way.
-
- If you notice any other errors, please let me know. I can be contacted
- by the following ways:
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- 1) SASE at the Excel Progs address.
- 2) E-Mail on The Other World BBS as Jman.
- 3) [Temporarily] by Internet E-Mail: admalek@sacam.oren.ortn.edu
-
- VI. Registration
-
- Registration is $15.00, which will give you the first full release of
- Midi Machine with your name on the title bar (nothing profane, please!)
- Company/government registrations are as follows:
-
- 1-10 licenses / $17 @
- 11-50 " " / $14 @
- 51-100 " " / $12 @
- 100 & up / Your company must not be doing much work (hehe), but
- the cost will be $10 @.
-
- Mail the check or money order (NO CASH), your preferred disk format
- (3.5 or 5.25 double density), and your name or company name to:
-
- Excel Progs
- re: Midi Machine registration
- c/o Andrew Malek
- 434 Gallaher View Rd Apt. 60
- Knoxville, TN 37919
-
- VII. Revisions
-
- V0.7 First Beta Version (For TOW Development beta-testing)
-
- V0.75 Misc. Features
-
- Added a minimum button.
- The text colors were changed from blue to yellow, letting
- the text stand out more.
- Altered the text in the "About" box slightly.
- You can now rename one file at a time (fixed), and it
- displays the name/size of the file in the box.
- Traps any errors in rename procedure.
- Ability to delete multiple files.
- Allows canceling of delete procedure.
- Traps any error in delete procedure.
- Able to play MIDIs in continous mode.
- In the title bar, as well as when the icon is minimized,
- the text is changed to the midi name when playing, or
- "Paused..." when paused.
-
- V0.78 Graphics/More
-
- Minor Bug Fixes
- Added Setup Screen
- Added moving picture ability when midis are being played
- Created "Conducter," "Music Notes," "Feel the Music"
- animation sequences
-
- V0.83 WAV Support, Graphics/More
-
- Minor Bug Fixes
- Stopped "flicker" when changing icons in setup mode when
- playing midis.
- Added WAV support
- Added WAV icon support.
- Created "Ear," "Wave," "Oscil" animations.
- Added new feature of "Smart-Renaming"... wav files
- will add .wav extension if left off, mid files will
- add .mid extension if left off.
-
- V0.86 New About Box/More
-
- Bug Fixes
- Renaming a file to itself will not display error
- New "About" box
- New "About" and "Setup" box formats...windows stay on screen until
- you want them to be removed. You can have all three windows
- on at one time.
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- V0.88 Bug Fixes/Speed Improvements
-
- Bug Fixes
- Increased speed with animated icons.
- When Midi Machine is minimized, the graphics will not
- move...speed increase.
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- V0.89 First Official Beta Release
-
- Bug Fixes
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- VIII. Warranty/Disclaimer
-
- NEITHER EXCEL PROGS, TOW DEVELOPMENT, ITS EMPLOYEES, SUPERVISORS,..ETC,
- TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OUTPUT OF THIS PROGRAM. YOU, THE USER,
- TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE USAGE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
-
- Microsoft, Windows, are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
- All trademarks are the property of their respective companies.
- Midi Machine (c) 1994 Excel Progs, All Right Reserved
-