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Midisoft Recording Session, Version 1.07
Information For New Users

    Thank you for purchasing Midisoft Recording Session.  We greatly look
forward to satisfying your sequencing needs now and for many years to come.

    If you mail in the enclosed registration card, we will automatically
send you information on upgrades and new products when they are available.
We also will send information about our other music packages, include
the powerful Midisoft Studio for Windows, the educational Music Mentor,
and our various other music products.

    We encourage you to contact us with any comments or questions that may
arise as you use our program. Midisoft Corporation Customer Service;
PO Box 1000; Bellevue WA 98009; USA; FAX [phone].



ISSUES YOU MIGHT ENCOUNTER WITH THIS RELEASE:


1) If you find that occasionally you lose the mouse cursor, you might be
    encountering a hardware conflict between Mouse and MIDI that occurs
    rarely in Enhanced-mode Windows (on VERY FEW machines).  If you use our
    program in Standard-mode Windows (Start Windows with WIN/S), this
    problem disappears.
2) If you have trouble getting MIDI Input, the problem is very likely
    a hardware interrupt conflict.  Take inventory of the other cards you
    have in your system, and make sure the MIDI card has a unique
    interrupt level and I/O address.   Note: The Windows Drivers for MIDI
    use Interrupts only for MIDI In, not for MIDI Out.  So if MIDI Out
    (playing) seems to work fine, that is NO indication that you have your
    card's interrupt set correctly.
3) If you have trouble getting playback, we recommend you simplify your test
    configuration by simply using the Media Player provided in Windows.
    This program will play back any of the MIDI files provided with
    Recording Session provided that you have configured your MIDI Mapper
    to playback the low channels (1-10).  If you can successfully get
    the MIDI Mapper to playback within Windows, then you will be able
    to get Midisoft Recording Session to playback by selecting MIDI Drivers/
    Multimedia Drivers/MIDI Mapper from the Setup Menu.
4) When in Score View, if you have trouble selecting notes to edit, you might
    try changing the clef to make sure the notes appear on the staff.
    Another option is to start a Click & Drag region from within the staff
    and end it outside the staff.  Similarly, to select rests (for the
    Splice Cut/Paste operations), do so by selecting click & drag region
    that includes the rest.
5) If you are running on a 2Mb computer, your usage of memory will affect
    the operation of our program.  We recommend that you use HIMEM.SYS
    (to access the high 384K Extended Ram), but don't tie up any
    RAM into SMARTDRV.SYS.  If Midisoft Recording Session claims not to have
    enough memory, Windows might not be correctly detecting high memory.
    On a 2 Mb configuration, we recommend you ascertain that Windows has
    at least 900K available before running Recording Session.  You can
    check your available memory by selecting "About Program Manager" in
    the Windows Program Manager's Help menu.  We do not run in 640K
    machines (and thus not Real Mode Windows), nor do we suggest
    using Expanded RAM (Windows runs best using EXTENDED RAM, not
    EXPANDED), or trying to run on a 1 Megabyte computer.
6) Because Midisoft Recording Sessions' MIDI drivers require instant access to
    memory, problems can be avoided by not using memory managers (such as
    earlier versions of QEMM) which intercept and map memory calls.
    We recommend that you simply use the HIMEM.SYS driver that comes with
    Windows.  Similarly, TSR programs that are feeding off your computer's
    clock can also cause problems.  If you are getting machine crashes or
    lock ups, we suggest clearing out your machine's startup files
    (AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS) to the bare minimum (even remove DOS shells)
    and try running Recording Session again before contacting our
    technical support department.
        Specifically, remove non-essential entries in your CONFIG.SYS
    and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, as well as bringing down the FILES= and
    BUFFERS= values in your CONFIG.SYS.  If you are using DOS 5 (or later),
    also make sure that you have a DOS=HIGH entry in CONFIG.SYS.
7) The File/Save/MIDI-File feature limits each track to 64K.  To work around
    that limitation, we recommend you break apart tracks before saving.
    Another option is to do most your work by using the MIDISOFT file
    format, that has no such limitation.
8) A little hint about changing a note's pitch:  Use the SHARP and FLAT
    tools (in the note palette) to click on a note and change by
    a half-step.  This can be used repeatedly to change a pitch as
    far as you desire.
9) If your SNG file data becomes corrupted or flaky in some way, one way
    to restore its integrity is to save as a MIDI File, then load the
    MIDI File and save again as a SNG file.
10) If you save and reload a file to discover that your Clef and Key has
    reverted to defaults, you should load and save in MIDISOFT File
    format, not MIDI File format.
11) We recommend you read the file entitled MAPHELP.TXT for some hints
    on solving problems related to the MIDI Mapper.
12) When using Windows 3.1's drivers, you might experience a minor
    problem track overdubbing onto a track already filled with data.
    If you re-record notes that are already on the same track, you
    might experience notes that last throughout the music (Note On
    and Note Off information getting scrambled).  The preferred use
    of overdub is to fill in areas that have not been recorded to yet,
    or to play notes in other octaves.
13) When using Windows 3.1's drivers, you may experience some notes sounding
    indefinitely (hanging) when recording using the MIDI Thru feature.
    Do not be alarmed -- your data is probably intact.  The problem is
    that the Windows drivers will sometimes not play a MIDI thru event
    if another event is being played back simultaneously.  If this event
    is a Note Off, then the note will stay on.  To turn of these notes, use
    our Help/MIDI Reset option.  The data will be fine upon playback.
14) If you notice that visually some note ties don't seem to connect
    correctly, this is because the measures were stretched a little
    when drawing the first time after a MIDI File load, and the ties
    positions had been pre-determined.  You can make ties look perfect
    by saving the file in SNG format.


ABOUT THE DEMO SONGS:

In addition to publishing music sequencing and notation programs like
Studio for Windows and Recording Session for Windows, Midisoft also publishes
MIDI data and music education software from which the following demo songs
have been taken. Among these products are:

The Midisoft Multimedia Music Library--A rich collection of original MIDI music
for use in multimedia presentations.

A World of Music--15 volumes of MIDI sequences of all types ranging from
classical to jazz to pop.  The World of Music Sampler is currently available.
Please check for availability of the additional volumes.

Music Mentor--A music entertainment and education program that combines text
and graphics with simple animation and MIDI-generated sound to make learning
about music fun.





FOR INFORMATION ABOUT ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS:

Midisoft Corporation
PO Box 1000
Bellevue, WA 98009
USA
VOICE: [phone]
FAX: [phone]