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README 1-
Master Tracks PRO 4 Demo

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INSTALLING THE PRO 4 DEMO

Installing the Pro 4 demo is easy.  You simply boot your computer and
run the demo's installer program.  In addition to the Pro 4
application, you can install sample music files and drivers for the
Sound Blaster and Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum cards.

The end of this document contains additional information about
Windows, MIDI Drivers, Port and IRQ settings and troubleshooting
tips.

README2.TXT (DEMO SCRIPT) is "How to use the program" and contains a description
of Pro 4's main features and a brief tour of the program.


MIDI setup

Although you can use Pro 4 without a MIDI instrument, in
order to use the Pro 4 demo with a MIDI instrument, you must
configure the software so that it can communicate properly with
your hardware. See the instructions below.


INSTALLATION

By running the Setup program on the Pro 4 Program Disk from
within Windows, you can quickly and easily install the Pro 4
demo and all related files.

The following section contains two separate installation procedures.
The first details installing Pro 4 from Windows 3.0.  The second,
slightly different procedure is for installing Pro 4 from
Windows with the Multimedia Extensions or Windows 3.1 or later.

Note:  For the following installation Microsoft Windows must
already be installed on your hard disk.

To install the Pro 4 demo from Windows 3.0:

1. Run Windows.
2. Insert the Pro 4 Program Disk into your computer's disk
drive (A: or B:).
3. Choose "Run" from the File menu of the Windows Program
Manager. The Run dialog appears.
4. In the "Command Line" text box, enter A:SETUP (or B:SETUP if
the Program Disk is in drive B:).
5. Click OK or press Enter to run the Pro 4 Setup program.
The Setup dialog appears.

The default drive and directory to which Pro 4 will be copied
are displayed in a text box.  If you want to install Pro 4 in a
different directory or drive, simply make the appropriate changes to
the text box.

Several installation options are listed in the box at the bottom of the
dialog.  These include installation of the Pro 4 program files and
MIDI drivers  The options are pre-selected for installation (indicated
by reverse highlighting).  De-select any options that you do not want.


6. Click OK and follow the on-screen prompts.
A dialog appears that asks if you would like the Setup program to
create an Pro 4 Program Group in the Windows Program Manager.
7. Click Yes or press Enter to create a Pro 4 Program Group.
8. After the Pro 4 Program Group is created, the Passport
MIDI Device Installer appears.  This enables you to install various
drivers for MIDI interfaces and sound cards.  MIDI drivers for the
Passport MIDI Transport, Roland MPU-401 and compatible
interfaces, Creative Labs' Sound Blaster, and Media Vision's Pro
AudioSpectrum are included on the Program disk.  There are also
drivers for the AdLib and FM synthesizers on the Sound Blaster and
Pro AudioSpectrum cards.
9. Select the appropriate drivers and click Add.
The selected drivers appear in the Installed list box.  These drivers
will also appear in Pro 4's MIDI Setup dialog when you run
Pro 4  (the MIDI Setup item is in the Goodies menu).
10. If you need to change the Port address or Interrupt number for
an installed device, select the device and click Setup.  When the
Setup Device dialog appears, change the settings and click OK.
Otherwise, you can leave the device set to its default settings. Click
OK to exit the Passport MIDI Device Installer.



INSTALLING PRO 4 UNDER WINDOWS 3.1
To install Pro 4 from Windows with the Multimedia Extensions
or Windows 3.1 or later:

1. Run Windows.
2. Insert the Pro 4 Program Disk into your computer's disk
drive (A: or B:).
3. Choose "Run" from the File menu of the Windows Program
Manager. The Run dialog appears.
4. In the "Command Line" text box, enter A:SETUP (or B:SETUP if
the Program Disk is in drive B:).
5. Click OK or press Enter to run the Pro 4 Setup program.
The Setup dialog appears.

The default drive and directory to which Pro 4 will be copied
are displayed in a text box.  If you want to install Pro 4 in a
different directory or drive, simply make the appropriate changes to
the text box.

Several installation options are listed in the box at the bottom of the
dialog.  These include installation of the Pro 4 program files and
MIDI drivers  The options are pre-selected (reverse highlighted) for
installation (the Passport MIDI drivers will automatically be de-selected on
Multimedia PCs or PCs running Windows 3.1 or later).
De-select any options that you do not want.

6. Click OK and follow the on-screen prompts.
A dialog appears that asks if you would like the Setup program to
create a Pro 4 Program Group in the Windows Program
Manager.
7. Click Yes or press Enter to create a Pro 4 Program Group.


MIDI setup

Although you can use Pro 4 without a MIDI instrument , in
order to use the Pro 4 demo with a MIDI instrument, you must
configure the software so that it can communicate properly with
your hardware.

1. Open the Pro 4 Program Group in the Windows Program
Manager (if it is not already open), and double-click the Pro 4
icon to run the program.
2. Pull down the Goodies menu and choose the MIDI Setup item.
The MIDI Setup dialog appears.

Ports

Pro 4 can communicate with the MIDI world over one or two of
your computer's output ports.  This is good because it lets Pro 4
address sixteen MIDI channels over each port, effectively giving it 32
channel capability.  You can use both if you have two MIDI interfaces
or a dual port interface such as Music Quest's MQX-32M.

There are four drop down list boxes that enable you to make port
assignments.  The two top list boxes let you designate the output
port(s) of your interface as either Port A or Port B.  This dialog
determines which software port is connected to which of your
computer's hardware ports.  Pro 4's output can also be routed
to sound cards like Creative Labs' Sound Blaster and Media Vision's
Pro AudioSpectrum.

Next to each of the output port list boxes is a check box labeled
"Send Sync".  Click this box to transmit MIDI sync messages on
that port.  Pro 4 sends MIDI song position pointer and MIDI
clocks.

The next list box, labeled "Record port" tells Pro 4 which port is
connected to the MIDI controller with which you'll enter notes onto
your score.

Pro 4 can play or record based on your computer's own internal
clock or on a MIDI song position pointer and MIDI clocks received
from an outside source.  If you'll be synchronizing your computer to
an external signal, you may want to keep the incoming sync signal
separate from MIDI data you're recording.  The "Receive sync port"
item lets you do this.

Note:  If you are using an MQX-32M and selected the MPU-401
drivers during installation, Pro 4 will sense the presence of the
MQX and offer a choice of MQX-32 Port 1 and Port 2 in the Port list
boxes.

Sync Source

The "Sync Source" radio buttons determine whether you'll use your
computer's clock or an external MIDI device as Pro 4's master
clock.

If you won't be using an external MIDI sync source to control the
playback of Pro 4: Check Internal.

Your PC's internal clock will control Pro 4's playback speed.

If you do want to "slave" Pro 4's playback functions to an
external source: Check External.


You are now ready to use Pro 4. Please read the README2.TXT file
to learn how to use the program.

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Pro 4 and Windows

This version of Master Tracks Pro 4 is designed to run with the
Multimedia Extensions to Windows 3.0 or with the Windows 3.1
MIDI drivers or with Passport's own MIDI drivers. If you have the
Windows Multimedia Extensions or Windows 3.1 you should not
install the Passport MIDI drivers, instead you can use any MIDI
driver that is installed with Windows 3.1 or the Multimedia
extensions. If you do NOT have Windows 3.1 or the Multimedia
Extensions to Windows 3.0 you MUST install the Passport MIDI
drivers in order for Master Tracks Pro to run.

There are two cases where you might want to use Passport's MIDI
drivers even if you are running Windows 3.0 with Multimedia
Extensions or Windows 3.1. The first case if you want to use
Passport's MIDI Transport interface. The second case is if you want
to connect a Miracle Keyboard or a Yamaha TG-100 sound module
directly to your computer's COM port. In any of these cases you can
install the Passport MIDI drivers into the same directory where Pro
4 is installed. Then, to use the Passport MIDI drivers instead of the
Multimedia Extensions or Windows 3.1 drivers, simply run Windows
from inside the Pro 4 directory. Be aware that when you do this that
the rest of the multimedia capabilities of Windows (i.e. Wave Audio,
etc.) will not function.  To restore full multimedia capabilities you
must exit Windows and re-run Windows from any other directory
that does not contain the Passport MIDI drivers.

Note: If you have a MusicQuest MQX style MIDI interface, and you
want to use its extended 32 MIDI channel or SMPTE syncing
capabilities with Windows 3.1 or the Multimedia Extensions then you
should get the driver that is available from MusicQuest.

The Setup program creates a Program Manager group called "Pro4"
and several Program Manager items (icons) for the Pro 4 executable
program and sample files.

Several sample music files are included with Pro 4. Some of the
files are authored and voiced according to authoring guidelines for
Multimedia PCs, where channels 1 through 10 are for Hi-End General
MIDI style sound modules, while channels 13 through 16 are for
base- level Adlib, SoundBlaster or MediaVision style FM synth cards.
The best way to get these files to sound good on your system is to
play them back through a correctly configured MIDI Mapper. You can
do this by selecting the MIDI Mapper as the output port in Master
Tracks Pro's MIDI Setup dialog. Alternativly, you can playback the
base-level channels directly to an Adlib sytle FM synth, by selecting
the corresponding output port in the MIDI Setup dialog and by
soloing the tracks that  are assigned to channels 13 through 16. MIDI
Mapper support is only available when running with the Multimedia
Extensions or Windows 3.1. Of course, if you have a General MIDI
synth, such as the Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas connected to a MIDI
out port, then you could solo all tracks that are assigned to channels
1 through 10 and play them back directly to the General MIDI synth.

There are also several sample music files that are voiced for the
Miracle Keyboard. If you choose either the "Miracle Keyboard" or the
"Sample Music Files" option, Setup will install these files and create
Program Manager icons for them.

The other sample music files that are included are either voiced
for a Roland MT-32, CM-64 or LAPC style synth or are generic
enough to sound good on just about any synth or sound module.
These files are not intended for multimedia purposes and will not
sound right when played back through the MIDI Mapper.

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PRO 4 -
Sound Card and MIDI Interface Address and Interrupt settings

Pro 4 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 Pro 4 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.  Pro 4 will sense the presence
of the MQX-32 and offer two port choices in the MIDI Setup
dialog.

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.


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PRO 4 -
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 Pro 4. 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
Pro 4 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 Pro 4 directory from the PATH statement. If
you do this, make sure that the references to PRO 4.EXE
(in any group file items or in the [Extensions] section of
your WIN.INI file) use Pro 4's full path name since
Windows won't be able to use the PATH statement to find
PRO 4.EXE. This way you can avoid the expanding PATH
statement syndrome.

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TROUBLE SHOOTING

-> If you get the message 'Out of environment space' when
   booting after installing Pro 4, 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.