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- NBPLAY [tm] (DISTRIBUTABLE VERSION)
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- COPYRIGHT 1989 BY FORBEN SOFTWARE
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- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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- NBPLAY actually plays multiple voices through your PC speaker.
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- NBPLAY plays music composed by the Note Baron music composer.
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- USING NBPLAY
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- NBPLAY comes with the following file :
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- - here - Beatles song
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- To hear an individual song type:
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- NBPLAY here
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- - If you have an XT type machine, you are allowed to adjust
- the speed from the command line.
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- Some XT machines (turbo, necv20) may have to use the sp command
- to produce the correct speed.
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- EXAMPLE : Music sounds too fast?
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- use NBPLAY sp8 minuet
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- to slow it down a little
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- (fast) (slow)
- The default value for XT's is 5. The range is sp0 to sp30.
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- The sp command has no effect if you have an AT type computer.
- Note Baron is processor speed independent on all AT type machines
- and should run correctly at any processor speed.
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- All songs were composed with the Note Baron composer.
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- NOTE BARON is available as a demo. Look for NOTE.ARC in IBMNEW
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- or see below
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- NOTE BARON [tm]
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- COPYRIGHT 1989 BY FORBEN SOFTWARE
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- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
-
-
- Note Baron actually plays multiple voices through your PC speaker.
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- Requires a CGA or EGA adapter.
-
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- USING NOTE BARON
- ----------------
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- Note Baron starts off with a demonstration song. One may
- hit any key to stop the song. This leaves one with a blinking
- cursor in the upper left of the screen.
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- Move the cursor about with the following keys :
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- CURSOR LEFT - RIGHT UP - DOWN
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- Place notes with the following keys :
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- F1 - QUARTER NOTE
- F3 - HALF NOTE
- F5 - WHOLE NOTE
- F7 - EIGHTH NOTE
- F9 - SIXTEENTH NOTE
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- Make existing notes into sharps or flats with the following keys :
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- F2 - SHARP
- F4 - FLAT
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- Erase an individual note - cursor to the beginning of the note
- and hit the following key :
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- F6 - ERASE NOTE
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- Erase all of the notes - hit the following key :
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- F8 - ERASE SCREEN
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- To hear the demonstration songs, hit the following key :
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- F10 - DEMO
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- To play one's composition, hit the P key.
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- To play a song backwards hit the B key.
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- To play any tune as a closed loop hit the L key.
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- PGUP and PGDOWN keys will access up to 10 bars.
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- The + and - keys will adjust speed.
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- The S key saves all the bars of your current song to a file
- named song .
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- The R key restores all the bars from a file named song .
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- One may rename the file song to any other name and
- include it in your programs with the distributable play
- program NBPLAY.EXE .
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- Example:
- - save a song with the S key.
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- - exit Note Baron and rename your song.
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- type ren song newname
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- - play your song with the play program
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- type NBPLAY newname
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- One may shell to NBPLAY or call it from a batch file
- without any video disruptions.
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- The H key will print a hardcopy of your song.
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- To exit the program, hit the ESC key.
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- - If you have an XT type machine, you are allowed to adjust
- the speed from the command line.
-
- Some XT machines (turbo, necv20) may have to use the sp command
- to produce the correct speed.
-
- EXAMPLE : Music sounds too fast?
-
- use Note sp8
-
- to slow it down a little
-
- (fast) (slow)
- The default value for XT's is 5. The range is sp0 to sp30.
-
-
- The sp command has no effect if you have an AT type computer.
- Note Baron is processor speed independent on all AT type machines
- and should run correctly at any processor speed.
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- Note Baron - allows anyone to easily create music. For printouts of
- notes, save/restore song to disk, and a distributable player so you
- can include songs in your own programs, send a check or money order
- to Forben now!
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- Requires a CGA or EGA adapter.
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- INTRODUCTORY Forben Software Engineering
- COST ONLY To: 33 Oakridge Road
- $24.95 Bloomfield, N.J. 07003
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