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NBPLAY [tm] (DISTRIBUTABLE VERSION)
COPYRIGHT 1989 BY FORBEN SOFTWARE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
NBPLAY actually plays multiple voices through your PC speaker.
NBPLAY plays music composed by the Note Baron music composer.
USING NBPLAY
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NBPLAY comes with the following file :
- here - Beatles song
To hear an individual song type:
NBPLAY here
- If you have an XT type machine, you are allowed to adjust
the speed from the command line.
Some XT machines (turbo, necv20) may have to use the sp command
to produce the correct speed.
EXAMPLE : Music sounds too fast?
use NBPLAY sp8 minuet
to slow it down a little
(fast) (slow)
The default value for XT's is 5. The range is sp0 to sp30.
The sp command has no effect if you have an AT type computer.
Note Baron is processor speed independent on all AT type machines
and should run correctly at any processor speed.
All songs were composed with the Note Baron composer.
NOTE BARON is available as a demo. Look for NOTE.ARC in IBMNEW
or see below
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NOTE BARON [tm]
COPYRIGHT 1989 BY FORBEN SOFTWARE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Note Baron actually plays multiple voices through your PC speaker.
Requires a CGA or EGA adapter.
USING NOTE BARON
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Note Baron starts off with a demonstration song. One may
hit any key to stop the song. This leaves one with a blinking
cursor in the upper left of the screen.
Move the cursor about with the following keys :
CURSOR LEFT - RIGHT UP - DOWN
Place notes with the following keys :
F1 - QUARTER NOTE
F3 - HALF NOTE
F5 - WHOLE NOTE
F7 - EIGHTH NOTE
F9 - SIXTEENTH NOTE
Make existing notes into sharps or flats with the following keys :
F2 - SHARP
F4 - FLAT
Erase an individual note - cursor to the beginning of the note
and hit the following key :
F6 - ERASE NOTE
Erase all of the notes - hit the following key :
F8 - ERASE SCREEN
To hear the demonstration songs, hit the following key :
F10 - DEMO
To play one's composition, hit the P key.
To play a song backwards hit the B key.
To play any tune as a closed loop hit the L key.
PGUP and PGDOWN keys will access up to 10 bars.
The + and - keys will adjust speed.
The S key saves all the bars of your current song to a file
named song .
The R key restores all the bars from a file named song .
One may rename the file song to any other name and
include it in your programs with the distributable play
program NBPLAY.EXE .
Example:
- save a song with the S key.
- exit Note Baron and rename your song.
type ren song newname
- play your song with the play program
type NBPLAY newname
One may shell to NBPLAY or call it from a batch file
without any video disruptions.
The H key will print a hardcopy of your song.
To exit the program, hit the ESC key.
- If you have an XT type machine, you are allowed to adjust
the speed from the command line.
Some XT machines (turbo, necv20) may have to use the sp command
to produce the correct speed.
EXAMPLE : Music sounds too fast?
use Note sp8
to slow it down a little
(fast) (slow)
The default value for XT's is 5. The range is sp0 to sp30.
The sp command has no effect if you have an AT type computer.
Note Baron is processor speed independent on all AT type machines
and should run correctly at any processor speed.
Note Baron - allows anyone to easily create music. For printouts of
notes, save/restore song to disk, and a distributable player so you
can include songs in your own programs, send a check or money order
to Forben now!
Requires a CGA or EGA adapter.
INTRODUCTORY Forben Software Engineering
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$24.95 Bloomfield, N.J. 07003
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