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- CONTENTS
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- * WHERE TO PURCHASE MUSIC ACE
- * VIEWING THE MACINTOSH MENU BAR ON A 640 BY 480 SCREEN
- * RUNNING THE MUSIC ACE DEMO ON A 5 MEGABYTE MACINTOSH
- * QUICKTIME™ MUSICAL INSTUMENTS
- * MIDI DRIVER OR MIDI MANAGER CONFLICT
- * INSTALLING MIDI MANAGER MANUALLY
- * MIDI INPUT
- * IF THE MUSIC ACE DEMO IS UNSTABLE AND/OR FREEZES OR DISPLAYS
- STRANGE ERROR MESSAGES
- * IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS INSTALLING QUICKTIME™
- * UNINSTALLING THE MUSIC ACE DEMO
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- WHERE TO PURCHASE MUSIC ACE
-
- For a dealer near you, please call Harmonic Vision at 1-800-644-4994.
- Or visit our web page at www.harmonicvision.com.
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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 THE MUSIC ACE DEMO ON A 5 MEGABYTE MACINTOSH
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- If your computer has only 5 megabytes of physical memory (RAM), the Music Ace Demo
- 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.
-
- You may find that you need to enable Virtual Memory (under the Memory control panel)
- in order to run the Music Ace Demo 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, the Music Ace Demo 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 the
- Music Ace Demo. You will need to restart your Macintosh for the changes made in
- the Extensions Manager to have effect.
-
- If there is only a small amount of swapping, the Music Ace Demo 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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- QUICKTIME™ MUSICAL INSTUMENTS
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- The Music Ace demo 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.
-
- 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.
-
- A small QuickTime™ music application in the 'Mac Files' folder called 'QTMusic Sample
- Keyboards' may be helpful in testing whether you have QuickTime configured properly.
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- MIDI DRIVER OR MIDI MANAGER CONFLICT
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- If you have already been using a MIDI keyboard before installing the Music Ace Demo,
- you might already have the MIDI driver or extension installed. If your previous driver
- or extension have names other than 'Apple MIDI Driver' or 'MIDI Manager', the Music Ace
- Demo installation program will not detect them. It will install its version of
- 'Apple MIDI Driver' in your System Folder and its version of 'MIDI Manager' in your
- Extensions folder. These will conflict with your existing MIDI driver and/or
- MIDI manager. If you see that your MIDI driver does not initialize properly during
- the boot process (if an error is indicated on the extension icon at the bottom of
- your screen during boot), you may have such a conflict.
-
- To solve the problem, look in you 'System Folder' folder on you main hard drive. Check
- if there is another file with a name similar (but not the same) as 'Apple MIDI driver'.
- Compare its date (set the View menu to 'by Name') to that of 'Apple MIDI driver'. Move
- the older of the two out of the System Folder to a temporary location (perhaps your
- desktop).
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- Next, open your Extensions folder (inside of System Folder). You will find MIDI Manager
- there. Look for another midi manager with a similar name. Again, remove the older of
- the two.
-
- Restart your computer. Check if the Music Ace Demo runs properly and check if your
- other MIDI programs run properly. If so, you can move the obsolete MIDI system files
- into your trash can. If not, put them back in their original folders, restart, and
- try something else.
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- INSTALLING MIDI MANAGER MANUALLY
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- If you did not install the MIDI Manager or Apple MIDI Driver during the Music Ace Demo
- installation, but have since changed your mind, you can copy them to your hard
- drive yourself. On the Music Ace Demo CD-ROM, they are located in the 'System Files'
- folder which can be found in the 'Mac Files' folder. The file 'Apple MIDI Driver'
- should be copied to your 'System Folder' on your main hard drive. The file
- 'MIDI Manager' should be copied to your 'Extensions' folder located in your
- 'System Folder'.
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- After copying these files, you will need to restart your computer in order for
- them to become operational.
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- MIDI INPUT
-
- Under the Options menu in the Music Ace Demo, there is an option called
- "Enable MIDI Input." Initially this option is checked, meaning that MIDI is enabled.
- If you decide that you do not wish to use a keyboard for MIDI input, then you can
- disable the MIDI input by checking this option. If you leave the MIDI enabled but
- have some other hardware connected via the modem port, the Music Demo Ace might
- interpret signals from that hardware as MIDI input. These non-MIDI signals can
- cause several problems which might affect the behavior of your computer.
-
- If MIDI input refuses to work after enabling it through the Music Ace menu, you can
- also enable it using a tool located in the 'Mac Files' folder called 'QTMA Configuration'.
- This tool was downloaded from Apple's web site and duplicates some of the
- functionality of the QuickTime Setting control panel. The only part of this tool
- that you will find useful is the 'Default MIDI Input' selector. This control has two
- settings: 'Off' and 'Modem'. Specify 'Modem' if you would like MIDI input through
- your modem port enabled. If you do not use MIDI input, it is best to leave this
- set to 'Off'.
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- This tool has bug which you can work around. The 'Default MIDI Input' always appears
- to be set to 'Off' when the tool is started even if you previously saved the
- configuration to be 'Modem'. If you desire to set this control to 'Modem', first
- set it to 'Off', save the configuration (via the File menu), then set it to 'Modem'
- and save it again. Likewise, if you desire to set it to 'Off', first set it to 'Modem',
- save the configuration, then set it to 'Off' and save it again. The next time you run
- the tool, ignore the initial contents of this control.
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- IF THE MUSIC ACE DEMO IS UNSTABLE AND/OR FREEZES OR DISPLAYS STRANGE ERROR MESSAGES
-
- If the Music Ace Demo 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 Demo 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.
-
- You will need to restart your Macintosh for the changes made in the Extensions
- Manager to have effect.
-
- If you do not use a MIDI keyboard, you might want to disable MIDI input in the
- Music Ace Demo menu and in the QTMA Configuration tool. See 'MIDI Input' above.
-
- The Music Ace Demo runs best if no other applications are running. Quit all other
- applications before starting the Music Ace Demo.
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- IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS INSTALLING QUICKTIME™
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- If Music Ace detects that you do not have QuickTime™ installed on your system or
- you have a version earlier than 2.5, the Music Ace Demo will call Apple's QuickTime
- version 2.5 installer. This installer will usually remove earlier versions of
- QuickTime from your system with no problem.
-
- 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.
-
- 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'.
-
- 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).
-
- 4) Restart you Macintosh.
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- UNINSTALLING THE MUSIC ACE DEMO
-
- To uninstall Music Ace, you need to remove the Music Ace preference files and the Music
- Ace 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...". They are:
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- Music Ace Demo Prefs CD
- Music Ace Demo MIDI Keyb Data
- Music Ace Demo User Data
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- Drag these to the trash.
-
- If, during the Music Ace Demo installation, you allowed the install program to copy
- some files to your hard drive (for improved performance), you have a folder somewhere
- on your hard drive that needs to be removed. Unless you specified a different name during
- installation, it will be called 'Music Ace ƒ'. Locate this folder and drag it to your
- trash icon.
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