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- Cadenza for Windows v 2.0 DEMO
- --------------------------
- Thanks for trying the Cadenza for Windows Demo. This file
- covers some information not covered in the DEMO.DOC file.
-
- This Demo is fully working with the following execptions -
-
- You cannot save anything and you can't print. Sorry, but
- we want you to buy it!
-
- The Demo version of the MIDI Director will only run one
- interface driver and will only support one program at a
- time.
-
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- The Contents of this file
- ==========================
-
- 1. Features of Cadenza for Windows
-
- 2. Information About the MIDI Interface Drivers
- **** Read this Selection if you are using the ***
- Multimedia Extentions!!
-
- =======================================================
- Some Features of Cadenza for Windows
- =======================================================
- **************** Now Supports Multimedia Windows
-
- Cadenza will now run with the Multimedia extentions installed
- in Enhanced Mode, not just in standard mode as in the past.
- The MIDI Director will use the Multimedia Timer if it is
- available and can also use the Multimedia MIDI and Synthesizer
- drivers. See the section on MIDI Interface Drivers for more
- information.
-
- **************** Activating the Tool Box in event edit windows
-
- The manual is a little vague on how to activate the event edit
- Tool Boxes. It is really easy. When you are in an event edit window
- pressing the right mouse button activates the tool box.
-
- **************** NEW MENU COMMANDS
-
- The following have been added to the Edit menu:
-
- Mark to Start Creates a block marked region from the beginning
- of the song to the current song position.
-
- Mark to End Creates a block marked region from the current
- song position to the end of the song.
-
- Mark All Block marks the entire song. Actually it removes
- all block marking. This has the same effect as
- marking the whole song.
-
- Note: The above commands remove any current block marking.
-
-
- ***************** ACCELERATOR KEYS
-
- Some of following key commands are short cuts to the menu
- commands. Others, which are used for block marking, have no
- corresponding menu command.
-
- F1 Short cut key for Help\Index
-
- F2 Duplicates Play Button
-
- F3 Duplicates Record Button
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- F4 Duplicates Stop Button
-
- F5 Duplicates Rewind Button
-
- F6 Duplicates Fast Forward Button
-
- F7 Short cut key for Edit\Mark to Start
-
- F8 Short cut key for Edit\Mark to End
-
- F9 Short cut key for Edit\Mark All
-
- F10 Activates Menu Bar, then use arrow keys to
- select a menu and command.
-
- F11 Open new Note Editor
-
- F12 Open new Event List
-
- Shift+F11 Open new Velocity Window
-
- Shift+F12 Open new Controllers Window
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- Ctrl+F11 Open new Aftertouch Window
-
- Ctrl+F12 Open new Pitch Bend Window
-
- Shift+F4 Short cut key for Window\Tile\Horizontal
-
- Shift+F5 Short cut key for Window\Cascade
-
- Space Bar The space bar doubles as a pause key while
- recording, and Play and Stop any other time.
- While in the Record Pause state, the Stop
- button can still be used to stop the recording.
-
-
- On the Numeric Keypad
-
- + Short cut key for Window\Zoom In. Only available
- when a zoomable window is the active (top) window.
-
- - Short cut key for Window\Zoom Out. Only available
- when a zoomable window is the active (top) window.
-
- ***************** MORE ABOUT CHANNELS
-
- The title bars for the Aftertouch, Pitch Bend and Controllers
- windows also show the channel number of the events being
- displayed.
-
-
- =======================================================
- Notes about the MIDI Interface Drivers
- =======================================================
- *** Using the MIDI Director -> MultiMedia Extentions Interface
-
- The MIDI Director and Cadenza for Windows now supports
- the MultiMedia Extentions. The MIDI Director will use the
- Multimedia timer, if it is installed, and with the help of
- the Multimedia Interface driver, it will use any Multimedia
- driver. This means you can use both a MIDI interface and
- a sound card, like a Sound Blaster, at the same time.
-
- You must have Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.0 with the Multimedia
- Extentions installed to use this driver.
-
- The Multimedia Interface driver will load all of your MME
- MIDI drivers and treat them as one multiport interface. You
- can use the MIDI Director Preferences program to exclude
- some Multimedia drivers when running the MIDI Director. This
- is valuable if you are running other Multimedia compatible
- programs and need to use the MME MPU401 driver. But when you
- run the MIDI Director, you should use the MPU401 driver we
- provide. This is because our drivers work better with the
- MIDI Director than MME drivers do. If you have a Music
- Quest MQX-32M interface, the MME drivers do not recognize
- the second port or the tape sync functions. The Big Noise
- MQX driver does. This allows you to get the most from your
- interfaces. The general rule is that if we supply a driver,
- use it instead of the Multimedia driver.
-
- *** Notes on the MPU-401 and MQX drivers.
-
- The MPU-401 and MQX-32m drivers are identical except for two
- features. The MQX-32m driver adds SMPTE and the MPU-401 driver
- has a flag for compatibility with CMS cards. The compatibility
- flag is really not necessary, since we also supply CMS-401-II
- and CMS-444 drivers in the retail package. Both interface
- drivers will work with the MPU-401, MPU-IPC, MPU-IMC, MQX-16S,
- MQX-32m cards and other MPU-401 compatibles. But if you want to
- use SMPTE on the Music Quest interfaces, you must use the
- MQX-32m driver. The MPU-401 driver will sense the dual outputs
- on your MQX-32m, just as the MQX driver does, but you can not use
- the built in SMPTE on your MQX-16s or MQX-32m.
-
- *** Notes on the Sound Blaster MIDI Driver
-
- The SBMIDI.DLL Soundblaster driver will work with both the older
- and the newer Soundblaster models. The older Soundblasters could
- not do MIDI Input while they did MIDI Output. To use the SBMIDI
- driver with these older cards, set the DSP flag to 0. You must
- then de-activate the input from the MIDI Director Control Panel,
- to beable to send MIDI Data to its output. If you have one of
- these older Soundblasters, Creative Labs will send you new
- DSP Chips that will allow simultaneous MIDI input and output
- for a very small charge. If you want to do serious MIDI, you
- need the newer DSP.
-
- *** Note on the CMS-444 interfaces
-
- The CMS-444 comes in two models, one with two ports and another
- with four ports. To use the supplied CMS-444 driver with the two
- port model of this card, you must set the 'Number of Ports'
- parameter in the Addports port setup for this card to 2. If
- you leave it set to 4, your machine will crash.
-
- *** Notes on The Key MIDIATOR
-
- The MIDIATOR is a great little interface. It comes in a 1 output
- and a 3 output model. The 1 output model is the MS-101 and the
- 3 output model is the MS-103. Be sure you use the correct driver,
- since you will get strange results if you select the wrong one.
-
-
-
- Again, thanks for trying our products. We hope you enjoy using
- the Cadenza for Windows Demo package.
-