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- Music Works 2 Readme file 26 Jan 1996
-
- This file is best viewed maximized to fill the screen.
-
- NEW FEATURES
- ============
-
- Grace notes are now supported
-
- Music Works will now copy data to the clipboard for pasting into other
- applications.
-
- See sections in this file for more information.
-
- INSTALLATION PROCEDURE
- ======================
-
- You must install Music Works 2 from the Windows program manager.
- If you are running a different shell such as Nortons Desktop for Windows,
- run Progman by select Run from the File menu in the desktop and typing
- PROGMAN.
-
- If you are running OS/2, you must ensure that the Windows Program Manager
- is running if you wish to add the Music Works for Windows group and icons.
- You may also find that the Setup program does not terminate correctly when
- installing from OS/2. If this happens the blue screen will be left open with no
- dialogue box displayed. In this case you will need to terminate the Setup
- program using the OS/2 Window list that pops up by pressing Ctrl Escape.
-
- Once you are running the Windows program manager, choose Run from the
- Windows program manager File menu, and type either A:SETUP or B:SETUP
- depending on which drive you are installing from.
-
- INSTALLATION - CTL3D
- ====================
-
- If 3D support for dialogue boxes has been improperly installed on you computer,
- a warning message box may pop up when you start the install program.
- This will not affect the running of the install program except that the
- dialogue boxes will be drawn without 3D effects. Continue with the
- installation and ignore the warning. If 3D support for dialogue boxes has not
- been installed, the installation program will install 3D support, but will
- run without 3D effects. The next time the program is run, the 3D effects will
- be used.
-
- INSTALLATION - OVERWRITING EXISTING FILES
- =========================================
-
- The installation program will warn you before overwriting existing
- files in the Windows or Windows System directories. You should normally
- overwrite older versions of files only. Do not overwrite a newer version
- of a file. The version numbers are displayed in the warning box that
- pops up when the program tries to overwrite a file.
-
-
- INSTALLATION - FILE LOCATIONS
- =============================
-
- All files are copied to the directory that MW2 is installed to, and
- subdirectories with the following exceptions.
-
- Five files are copied to the windows system directory. They are :
-
- CTL3DV2.DLL 3D dialogue box file
- MWSYMBOL.TTF MWW font file
- MWSYMBOL.FOT MWW font file
- GUITFNT1.TTF MWW font file
- GUITFNT1.FOT MWW font file
-
-
- The first file provides 3D support for dialogue boxes used in the
- installation program and in Music Works 2, and may be used by other
- Windows software.
-
- The next four files are font files used by Music Works 2, and are unlikely
- to be used by other applications.
-
- Installation files are copied to your TEMP directory. If you
- have a command such as
-
- SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
-
- in your autoexec.bat file, then these files will be copied to that
- directory, otherwise they may be copied to the DOS, WINDOWS,
- or root directory. At present, these files are not deleted after use.
- The files are :
-
- MWSETUP.EXE
- MWSETUP.INI
- STRINGS.DLL
-
- They can be deleted any time after completing installation.
-
-
- INSTALLATION - WIN.INI
- ======================
-
- Music Works 2 will add the following entries to the WIN.INI file in
- your Windows directory.
-
- [Extensions]
- mww=mw2.exe ^.mww to inform Windows that files with MWW extension
- belong to Music Works 2
-
- [fonts]
- MWW Symbols (TrueType)=mwsymbol.fot
- MWW Guitar Tabs (TrueType)=guitfnt1.fot
-
- The above two entries are added when the Music Works 2 fonts are added.
-
- PLAYING MUSIC ON SOUNDBLASTER CARDS
- ===================================
-
- Some Soundblaster drivers cause MW2 to crash while playing. This occurs
- only when playing through the FM output using more than one channel at
- a time. The problem can occur on early 8 bit standard Soundblaster cards
- with their own drivers, and on a Soundblaster Pro card with OS/2 drivers.
- There may be other configurations that cause the problem.
-
- Two solutions are possible.
- 1. Use one channel only in your composition. This is not really a problem
- with MW2, as MW2 will automatically generate patch changes and velocity
- changes to support multiple instruments on a single channel.
- 2. Add an entry to the MW2.INI file in the [Play] section setting the
- output channel for all music. This would read as follows
-
- SingleChannelPatch=n
-
- where n is a value between 0 and 15 indicating the channel to use, eg
- to send all output to channel 0, use
-
- SingleChannelPatch=0
-
- To disable this feature, either comment out the line by placing a semicolon
- at the start of the line, or set it to 65535.
-
- If your music is all assigned to a single channel, it will still play correctly.
- See the section titled "assigning the same channel to more than
- one track" for details.
-
- ASSIGNING THE SAME CHANNEL TO MORE THAN ONE TRACK
- =================================================
-
- It is possible to output a number of tracks to the same channel.
- MW2 allows this to happen by automatically generating patch
- changes and velocity changes while playing so that the different
- tracks do not interfere with each other. This allows you to
- produce multichannel type output on a single channel. The automatic
- generation of velocity changes can be turned on and off from the
- MW2 INI file, and is on by default.
-
- This option does not work correctly on all devices. Some devices ignore
- patch changes sent while a note is being played. On these devices, if a note
- is playing on a given channel at the time a note from a different track is sent
- to the same channel the second note will probably be lost or played
- incorrectly.
-
- NOTES MISSED OUT OR PLAYED INCORRECTLY
- ======================================
-
- You may need to assign each track to a different channel. See "Assigning the
- Same Channel to More Than One Track" above.
-
- This is normally done by editing tracks from the Track Edit Palette.
-
- PRINTING PROBLEMS
- =================
-
- There can sometimes be problems printing to HP Deskjet printers
- if you are using Cirrus Logic variable resolution screen drivers.
- The problem is exhibited as a failure to print the heads and tails
- of notes and various other parts of your score at some stave size
- settings. It this problem occurs, the solution is to run the Windows
- Setup program from DOS (outside of Windows) and choose a different
- screen driver. Usually VGA or SVGA is fine.
-
- TOOL BAR PROBLEMS
- =================
-
- At 640x480 display resolution, the two rightmost buttons on the toolbar
- will not be visible. These two buttons adjust the width setting for your
- composition. If you are running at this resolution, adjust the width
- settings from the Layout dialog box in the View menu instead of using
- these buttons.
-
- RECORDING
- =========
-
- A new switch has been added to give greater control of the record functions The
- switch allows the user to control whether data is processed while recording or
- after recording has finished. Previously data was always processed while
- recording. This could cause problems on slower systems or more complicated
- compositions. By enabling the switch, most data will be buffered while
- recording, and processed when the stop button is pressed. This should free up
- the computer to better handle recording. The switch is set by entering a line
- into the MW2.INI file. In the section headed [Record], add or change the line
-
- SpeedRecord=1
-
- to use the new recording method or
-
- SpeedRecord=0
-
- to use the old method.
-
- CLIPBOARD
- =========
-
- The current page can be copied to the clipboard to be pasted into other
- applications. Select the page to copy and choose Copy Page from the Edit menu
- or type Control B to copy the page. In your other application choose Paste
- to retrieve the picture from the clipboard. The entire page will be inserted.
- There are many settings that can be altered for sizing of images. Refer to the
- MetaFile section of the Ini file.
-
- Default settings in the ini file to set the size of the output are :
-
- [MetaFile]
- SizeMethod=2
- XScale=5700
- YScale=5700
- OverallScale=2000
-
- Alternative settings that you might try are :
-
- [MetaFile]
- SizeMethod=2
- XScale=20000
- YScale=20000
- OverallScale=600
-
- This will make the output much larger without scaling.
-
-
-
- GRACE NOTES
- ===========
-
- Grace notes are now supported.
-
- These notes are drawn at half the normal
- size and are often used to show short notes that may be played before the beat
- or on the beat. In almost all ways a grace note can be used and edited in
- exactly the same way as a normal note. One exception is that a grace note
- cannot be beamed to a normal note. Grace notes can be beamed and tied to normal
- notes, and grace notes can be beamed to other grace notes. A note is set to be
- a grace note from the Edit Note dialog box which has a Grace Note check box. To
- better support grace notes a few extra options have been added to the Edit Note
- dialog box. These options allow a note to be shifted from its correct position
- on the score, and played at a different time to that indicated on the score.
- There is also an option to adjust the played length of a note. They are
- explained in the on line help. These options can be applied to all notes.
-
- To support these extra options, the Music Works files format has changed.
- This version of Music Works will read files from all previous versions of the
- program, however previous versions of Music Works will not read files written
- by this version. If you wish to transfer files to other people, ensure that they
- also have this release of Music Works.
-
- There are several ways of placing grace notes. A method we have found to be
- satisfactory is as follows.
-
- Place the grace note at the beat of the normal note following the grace note
- before the normal note is placed.
- Edit the grace note by double clicking on it, select the Grace Note check box
- to change it to a grace note and adjust the position offset (usually with a
- negative value to shift it to the left - possible 2.5 to 5.0). Also adjust the
- play offset to make the grace note play early. This is specified in clock ticks
- (default of 240 to beat or crotchet). This might be a value of -60 or so. You
- may want the note to play shorter than the displayed value by adjusting the
- length offset once again in clock ticks. This may be a value of -30 or so.
- Select OK and the note will be redrawn.
- Add any following grace notes in the same way and beam them together if
- required.
- Place the normal note the same way. You may need to adjust the play offset to
- cause the note to be played off the beat. You may also need to adjust the
- length offset to compensate for the note starting early or late.
-
- Note that you need to use the Edit Note dialog box for these edit operations
- rather than the Edit Selected Notes dialog box. When editing Selected Notes
- it is possible to change notes from normal notes to grace notes and vice versa
- however it is not possible to move notes or adjust the play offset.
-
- Note also that a note must not be beamed to allow it to be changed to or from
- a grace note. To change beamed notes, first remove the beam, then change the
- notes then add a new beam.
-
- Refer also to online help for use of grace notes.
-
- WINDOWS 95
- ==========
-
- Music Works has not yet been written as a Windows 95 program. It has been
- tested on Windows 95 systems, and found to run well. If you install Windows95
- onto your computer, you will need to re-install Music Works to ensure that it
- will run correctly. If the program is not re-installed, it may crash while
- starting up or display incorrectly. Music Works may also crash while starting
- if the MW2.INI file is missing, or moved. A Windows 95 version is currently
- being written.
-
-
- CORELDRAW 3.0
- =============
-
- When exporting to CorelDraw 3.0 using the clipboard, some symbols will not be
- imported by CorelDraw. This is a limitation of CorelDraw. MusicWorks symbols
- are actually characters of a special font. The symbols defined as characters
- beyond the normal range (ie greater than character 127) are not imported by
- CorelDraw 3.0. These symbols are imported correctly by most other
- applications.
-
-
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