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- Read Me 3
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- MusicTime Release Notes - 1/27/92
-
- Welcome to MusicTime for Windows. Included below are some
- notes and bits of information which may clarify how MusicTime
- works and what you need to do to get up and running.
-
- Thank you,
-
- Passport Designs
- 100 Stone Pine Road
- Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
- (415) 726-0280
-
- 1.) MUSICTIME and MIDI
-
- MusicTime can work with Microsoft Windows with or without the
- Multimedia Extensions. We have provided MIDI drivers which
- can either replace or act in place of the Multimedia
- drivers.
-
- If you are using Passport's MIDI drivers you need to find
- out the port address and interrupt level your MIDI card
- uses. If those differ from the Passport MIDI driver defaults
- you need to use the MIDI Setup (MIDISET) program to get the
- correct values into your SYSTEM.INI file. Run MIDI Setup
- from the MusicTime Program Group in Windows, select the
- appropriate driver from the list of Installed Devices, and
- click Setup to change the port address and interrupt level.
- If no devices appear to be installed, select the appropriate
- device(s) from the list box to the left and click Install.
-
- You can also edit the SYSTEM.INI file directly using Windows
- SYSEDIT application. Go to the [drivers] section of the
- SYSTEM.INI file and manually add or edit the drivers as in
- the examples below:
-
- ; default settings for an MPU-401
- [mpu401.drv]
- port=330
- int=2
-
- ; for Soundblaster MIDI
- [sndblst.drv]
- port=220
- int=3
-
- ; for port 1 on Passport's MIDI Transport
- [trnsprt1.drv]
- port=3f8
- int=4
-
- ; for port 2 on Passport's MIDI Transport
- [trnsprt2.drv]
- port=2f8
- int=3
-
- The first entry, for instance, will tell Passport's MIDI
- driver to look for your MPU-401 on interrupt 2 at port
- address 330. Check your card and its documentation for help
- on finding out what these values are. The above values are
- the defaults. You need only add an entry to your SYSTEM.INI
- file if your values are different than these.
-
- If you use a MusicQuest MIDI card, Passport's drivers allow
- you to access all of the cards 32 channels. Install the MPU-
- 401 driver for this card. MusicTime will sense the presence of
- the MQX-32 and offer two port choices in the MIDI Setup
- dialog (see the User's Manual for more information about
- MIDI Setup).
-
- Windows provides a program which makes editing your
- SYSTEM.INI file, and other system files, easy to do. It is
- called SYSEDIT.EXE and can be found in your Windows system
- directory. Add it to your Main group if you haven't done so
- already. It is great to have around. Take care when you edit
- these files, however. They must be just right for your
- system to work. Keep backups around just in case.
-
-
- 2.) MusicTime's DLL FILES
-
- There are two files (LOMIDI.DLL and MMSYSTEM.DLL if you are
- using Passport's MIDI driver) which Windows must be able to
- find in order to run MusicTime. They can reside in the Windows
- directory, the Windows system directory, or any directory
- set in the PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
- The default behavior of the Setup program is to add your new
- MusicTime directory to the PATH statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT. This
- means that Windows will find the DLLs by searching the PATH.
-
- If you wish, you can copy those three files into another
- directory in the PATH or in the Windows directories and
- remove your MusicTime directory from the PATH statement. If you
- do this, make sure that the references to MusicTime.EXE (in any
- group file items or in the [Extensions] section of your
- WIN.INI file) use MusicTime's full path name since Windows
- won't be able to use the PATH statement to find MusicTime.EXE.
- This way you can avoid the expanding PATH statement
- syndrome.
-
- 4.) TROUBLE SHOOTING
-
- -> If you get the message 'Out of environment space' when
- booting after installing MusicTime, increase the environment
- size in your CONFIG.SYS file. The statement:
-
- shell=command.com /e:512 /p
-
- will most likely provide you with ample space. If not,
- increase the number after '/e:'.
-
- -> If you get no MIDI I/O whatsoever, make sure that the
- SYSTEM.INI settings are correct. Check the card and its
- documentation to make sure of what the values are.
-
- -> We have noticed that with Windows Multimedia Extensions
- MPU-401 driver in 386 enhanced mode, occasional incoming
- data is lost. This has been reported and (we hope) will
- be addressed in future Multimedia Windows versions. In
- the meantime try running in Standard mode (run 'win /s'),
- which we have had better luck with.