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ACCOMPANIST - A 16 Voice Sequencer.
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Version 2.2 September 1990
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ACCOMPANIST has been through a number of versions since
version 2.1 entered the Public Domain in September 1989. There
have been quite a few bug reports and suggestions for enhance-
ments.
This is a special version of ACCOMPANIST. It contains fixes
for most of the bugs that have been reported since ACCOMPANIST
version 2.1 was released. These are listed below.
The latest version is 4.2, and is available to anyone who writes
and asks for it (see READ.ME). The enhancements it contains are
listed after the bug fixes.
Bug Fixes
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1. Recording a lot of chords no longer gives timing errors
after a number of bars.
2. MIDI Thru no longer crashes when the Voice Output
Channel is set to **.
3. When driven by an external MIDI clock, ACCOMPANIST waits
until the rhythm unit starts, instead of starting at the first
MIDI input, e.g Active Sensing, MIDI Clock.
4. When driving an external rhythm unit with ACCOMPANIST'S
clock, ACCOMPANIST now works correctly, even if the rhythm unit
is sending its own MIDI Clock output (eg as on a YAMAHA HS4
Organ).
5. When driving an external rhythm unit with ACCOMPANIST'S
clock, and the Tempo is changed while playing, using the arrows
in the Conductor box, ACCOMPANIST and the rhythm unit now stay
synchronized correctly.
6. The Conductor Dialogue now scans correctly after updating
the time.
7. Updating times for Conductor commands in the Conductor
Dialogue now works correctly.
8. Selecting SCAN in the Conductor Dialogue immediately
scans to an existing Conductor operation.
9. Quantize at less than /16 now works correctly.
10. The Resource file is now searched for in the correct
folder, ie the one from which loading took place.
11. The Map is now displayed correctly in high resolution,
with the lines of music properly aligned with each Voice.
12. Quantize no longer crashes with a divisor of 25 or more.
13. Switching from an External MIDI clock back to the
internal clock, now starts immediately PLAY is selected, instead
of waiting for MIDI input.
14. The desk accessories menu is now correctly set up.
15. Recording with an External MIDI Clock now works
correctly.
16. When Voices cannot be distinguished for recording, the
correct Voice names are now given in the error message.
17. Randomize uses the correct values, not those left by the
previous Quantize Dialogue, if any.
18. Save Dialogue now correctly picks up the File name
previously used for Save-as.
Bugs Remaining
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1. Changing a Section's time, so that it is after another
Section, causes timing errors when playing music.
2. No check is made that there is enough space to load a
piece of music. (All the pieces on this disk load easily on a
512K ST.)
Enhancements in Version 4.2
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1. MIDI File Standard (MFS) format is used for input and
output. Version 2 files may still be read in Version 3+. This
allows you to share music with users of other MIDI sequencers, or
even different hardware (eg MAC, PC). It also allows you to
upgrade to a commercial sequencer, eg NOTATOR, and take your
music with you.
2. Repetition. A sequence of bars may be repeated a number
of times, with early exit a number of bars before the end of a
repeated sequence.
3. Insert and Delete. These allow a number of bars to be
inserted or deleted, with all music and Sections being moved
appropriately. They are primarily intended to simplify the
addition and deletion of Repeats with 1 or more exit bars.
4. The Metronome may use different notes and velocities for
the first and subsequent beats in each bar.
5. Output to the monitor using the Atari's sound channels
may be switched, allowing free use of MIDI Channels 14-16.
6. Program numbers are no longer limited to 96, but may be
specified up to 127.
7. MIDI Thru works when the sequencer is inactive (ie not
playing or recording).
8. ACCOMPANIST optionally initialised by a small text
Configuration File.
9. Magnified Text to help the partially sighted. Any object
on the desktop, or in each Menu and Dialogue, can be magnified
into a large font by pressing either shift key while clicking on
the object. This is optional, and is specified in the Configura-
tion File.
10. Specification of the amount of MIDI Event memory used by
ACCOMPANIST. This is specified in the Configuration File.
11. Specification of the amount of memory to be left free
for use by other software. This is specified in the Configuration
File.
12. Block Move and Copy more forgiving about handling blocks
containing Time Signature changes.
13. Double clicking on a Voice name enters the Voice Change
Dialogue immediately.
14. Double clicking on a Section name enters the Section
Change Dialogue immediately
15. Clicking on an unselected Section causes the Marker to
be moved to that section.
16. Double clicking in the Marker slider box moves the
Marker to that position.
HELP
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The enhancement for people with partial sight was done in
response to a phone call. The caller, a middle aged man, asked me
whether I could help him to see the small numeric fields. At the
time, I could not see any way to help, so after a friendly chat,
the phone call ended, and I expected to get a letter asking for
an update.
About a week later I had a simple idea for producing magnified
text, and feverishly set about implementing it so that I could
send it to him when his letter arrived. However, the letter
never came!
Do you know this man? He works in the medical profession, and
obviously owns an ST. If you know anyone who fits this
description, please ask him whether he is the right man, and if
so, please get him to contact me.