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- QUICKTIME™ V2.5
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- Although Music Ace will run with QuickTime™ version 2.0, Music Ace needs
- QuickTime™ version 2.5 or higher in order to run properly. (With version 2.0,
- musical notes will sometimes lag the animation.) If you do not have
- version 2.5 on your system, you can download it free of charge from the
- internet.
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- To can find the latest version of QuickTime™, you can go to Harmonic Vision's
- web page (www.harmonicvision.com). You will be able to download it directly
- from there, or there will be a link to the Apple web page containing QuickTime™.
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- You may also be able to find the newest version of QuickTime on online services
- such as AOL and Compuserve.
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- IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS INSTALLING QUICKTIME™
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- Apple's QuickTime™ installer will usually remove earlier versions of itself.
- On some computers, however, it does not remove the previous version properly. If you
- get an error message while booting your Macintosh indicating that there is a problem with
- QuickTime, or if the QuickTime icons that appear at the bottom of you screen during the
- boot process indicate a problem, you will need to fix the problem manually.
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- To fix the problem, follow these steps:
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- 1) Open your Extensions folder (Open your main hard drive folder, then open the 'System Folder'
- folder, then open the 'Extensions' folder).
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- 2) Using the menu bar, set the View to 'by Name'.
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- 3) Locate the QuickTime files in this folder. Identify QuickTime files with EXACTLY duplicate
- names. Look at the dates associated with these files. Drag the older of these duplicate
- files to the trash. Keep only the newest version of each file (most recent date).
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- 4) Restart you Macintosh.
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- QUICKTIME™ MUSICAL INSTUMENTS
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- Music Ace uses Apple's Quicktime™ to generate musical notes. By default, Quicktime
- generates musical notes internally using your Macintosh's CPU and plays them using your
- built-in speaker. If you have a General MIDI keyboard connected to your Macintosh's modem
- port via MIDI cables, Quicktime can play notes on that keyboard instead. You can select
- which method QuickTime™ will use via the 'QuickTime™ Settings' control panel.
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- Selecting the Apple logo in the upper-left corner of your screen will reveal a menu which
- includes 'Control Panels'. Selecting 'Control Panels' will reveal your system's control panels
- including 'QuickTime™ Settings'. In QuickTime settings, select 'Music' in the top of the
- dialog box. The checkboxes on this dialog box will let you select how music will be played.
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- VIEWING THE MACINTOSH MENU BAR ON A 640 BY 480 SCREEN
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- Pressing the space bar will toggle display of the Macintosh menu bar. When the menu bar
- is displayed, the Music Ace Demo will suspend operation. It will resume when the menu
- bar is removed with another press of the space bar.
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- RUNNING MUSIC ACE ON A 5 MEGABYTE MACINTOSH
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- If your computer has only 5 megabytes of physical memory (RAM), Music Ace will have
- barely enough memory to run. Music Ace requires about 2.5 megabytes for itself, and
- the Macintosh operating system uses approximately 2.5 megabytes also, give or take,
- depending on how many extensions you have enabled.
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- You may find that you need to enable Virtual Memory (under the Memory control panel)
- in order to run Music Ace on a 5 megabyte computer. When virtual memory is enabled,
- your Macintosh will frequently swap parts of the Music Ace program betweeen your
- hard drive and RAM. This will slow Music Ace, possibly a great deal. If there is too
- much swapping, digitized sound will break up and Music Ace will come to an almost
- complete stand-still.
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- If there is only a small amount of swapping, Music Ace will probably run fine. To
- minimize swapping, turn off some of the extensions using the Extensions Manager
- control panel. Make sure you leave the QuickTime, Apple CD-ROM, and Sound Manager
- extensions enabled. If you use a MIDI keyboard, the MIDI Manager must also be
- enabled. If you want to print, leave the printer extension enabled. The Extensions
- Manager allows you to save configurations. You might want to save one for Music Ace.
- You will need to restart your Macintosh for the changes made in the Extensions Manager to
- have effect.
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- If there is only a small amount of swapping, Music Ace will probably run fine. To
- minimize swapping, turn off some of the extensions using the Extensions Manager
- control panel. Make sure you leave the QuickTime, Apple CD-ROM, and Sound Manager
- extensions enabled. If you use a MIDI keyboard, the MIDI Manager must also be
- enabled. If you want to print, leave the printer extension enabled. The Extensions
- Manager allows you to save configurations. You might want to save one for MDP. You will
- need to restart your Macintosh for the changes made in the Extensions Manager to
- have effect.
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- IF MUSIC ACE IS UNSTABLE AND/OR FREEZES OR DISPLAYS STRANGE ERROR MESSAGES
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- If Music Ace does not run reliably or does not start properly, one or more of your
- system extensions may have a conflict with QuickTime™ or QuickTime™ Musical
- Instruments. Using the Extensions Manager control panel, create a custom
- Music Ace configuration with some of the extensions turned off. Make sure you
- leave the QuickTime, Apple CD-ROM, and Sound Manager and MIDI Manager extensions
- enabled.
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- You will need to restart your Macintosh for the changes made in the Extensions
- Manager to have effect.
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- Music Ace runs best if no other applications are running. Quit all other applications
- before starting Music Ace.
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- UNINSTALLING THE MUSIC ACE DEMO
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- To uninstall the Music Ace Demo, you need to remove the Music Ace preference files
- and the Music Ace Demo data files that were copied to your hard drive. The preference
- files are located in your Preferences folder inside the System Folder on your main
- hard drive. These all start with "Music Ace Demo...". They are:
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- Music Ace Demo Prefs
- Music Ace Demo MIDI Keyb Data
- Music Ace Demo User Data
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- Drag these to the trash.
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- Locate the Music Ace Demo folder. Drag this to the trash also.
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