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VUSIC The Screen Raver
README
Make sure that your CD-ROM drive is set up for playing
music CD's. Also, the CD-ROM's audio output must be
passed through the computer's sound card. Internal
CD-ROM's are usually set up that way but external
CD-ROMs require special cables for the audio to be
plugged into the sound card.
VUSIC The Screen Raver
ScreenRaving with VUSIC
Running the Install Program for VUSIC copies VUSIC onto
your hard drive. This will enable you to run VUSIC with
or without the VUSIC CD-ROM in your drive. Running it
with the VUSIC CD-ROM disk will enable you to play the
two bonus music tracks bundled with the VUSIC program.
Track 2 has a rave which you can load and attach to track
2. It is called JUNGLE.RAV. However to get the most out
of VUSIC, play any music CD in your CD-ROM drive and VUSIC
will interact with it.
After VUSIC has loaded, the first screen you will see
will be the VUSIC controller. Pressing the SHIFT key
will toggle between the VUSIC controller and full screen
drawing. This is where the interaction is! Double click
on the Question Mark icon(?) icon for full screen context
sensitive help.
There are several ways to play with your VUSIC software.
The easiest way to start is to just turn your program ON
and let VUSIC go. From there you can interact with VUSIC
by changing brushes, movements and palettes, to create and
save your own choreographies called Raves.
VUSIC fills your computer screen with a constantly
changing array of vivid colors and patterns. This
changing stream of moving art is affected by a
Variety of settings which you can control or just
let VUSIC randomly do its thing.
HypnoScreen Level
When you press TAB, the VUSIC HypnoScreen will appear.
Each time you press TAB, you step through one of the
three stages of the HypnoScreen. The first is color
cycling with a partial controller interface. The
second is just the color cycling and the third is
the color cycling with drawing over it. Each time
you enter the HypnoScreen, a different pattern will
be chosen at random.
Explore unending combinations of VUSIC's highly randomized
happy accidents which make VUSIC so cool. The secret
to having the greatest amount of fun in this program is
Experimentation!.
READ ON THE FLY ( AUTO listen)
In the center of the VUSIC controller interface is a
vertical column with a diamond and a square on it.
This column is a VU response indicator. When the
AUTO button is turned on, the VU indicator is red
and it responds to the audio signal coming from your
CD-ROM drive. When the AUTO button is turned off,
the VU indicator is green, and it responds to the
Beats Per Minute (BPM) setting between the Speed and
the TAP buttons. The default setting for the AUTO
button is on, and the default setting for BPM is 60.
If the VU indicator is not red when the AUTO button
is on, you may need to make adjustments to your mixer
controllers. With the wide variety of sound cards
in the Windows market, there is no standard way to
adjust the mixer.[In Sound Blaster for example, there
is a SBxx directory.]Generally, the mixer is found
in a Program Group associated with your sound card
utilities. If you are using Windows 95, you should
be able to find the mixer off the Start menu, either
in the Accessories group under Programs, or in the
Control Panel under Settings.
VOLUME SLIDER DOESN'T WORK:
If your CD player is external or uses the LINE-IN
port of your sound card, then the slider won't work
correctly. To fix this situation, locate the
WINMIXER.INI file in your SETTINGS subdirectory within
your VUSIC directory and copy this file into your
WINDOWS directory.
SETTING YOUR MIXER CONTROLS
Windows: It may be necessary to adjust your mixer to
insure that your CD player is enabled. Some of the
settings to check are: Master Volume turned up, the
CD player is enabled, CD player enabled to Record,
LED display are turned off.
MAC: To check your mixer settings, go to the Sound
Control Panels, Choose Sound In, Choose a Source and
enable the Internal CD. Click the options button. Select
"internal CD" as the input source. Make sure to check
playthrough.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: This program is designed to be played
with music CD's . Make sure that your CD-ROM drive
is set up for playing music CD's. Also, the CD-ROM's
audio output must be passed through the computer's
sound card. Internal CD-ROM drives are usually set up
that way but external CD-ROM's drives require special
cables for the audio to be plugged into the sound card.
After installation, your VUSIC CD is no longer needed
in your CD-ROM drive unless you want to listen to the
bonus music tracks or see the other demos on this disk.
Note: If you attempt to play the two LOOP GURU audio
tracks in an audio CD player, be sure to skip past
track 1.
BLENDER DEMO: There is a Blender demo on this disk . Blender is
a CD-ROM Entertainment Magazine for multimedia computers.
To start the magazine in WINDOWS, go to the File Manager,
find the CD-ROM drive containing the BLENDER CD-ROM and
click on that drive. In the folder called BLENHYB, there
is an application called BLENDER.EXE. Click twice on
that to start BLENDER.
To start BLENDER on a MAC, double-click on the BLENDER icon.
NOTE: THIS PROGRAM REQUIRES THE MONITOR TO BE SET TO 256 COLORS.
SOUND CARD ANOMALIES
If your computer is a Zeos Pantera series with
integrated audio, and you find you are not able to
control the audio volume from the Media Controller in
Windows, the VOLUME control in VUSIC will not function.
Testing has shown that the only way to adjust the
volume on these computers is by manually setting
your speakers or with the volume control on your
CD-ROM drive. For more information, contact your
computer manufacturer's service department.
VUSIC SCREEN SAVER:
Screen Saver Instructions - Macintosh
On a Macintosh, the screen saver gets installed in the
Control Panels folder of the System folder. To access
it, choose Control Panels from the Apple menu. Double
click on the icon named VUSIC Screen Saver. There
is a check box at the bottom of the dialog box marked
Enabled. Be sure it is checked to use VUSIC as your
screen saver.
Screen Saver Instructions - Windows 95
In Windows 95, the screen saver gets installed as a
Control Panel in your system. To access it, choose
Settings from the Start menu, then select Control
Panel. Double click on the icon named Display and
then click on the Screen Saver tab. In the Screen
Saver section, select VUSIC from the menu.
Screen Saver Instructions - Windows 3.1
In Windows 3.1, the screen saver gets installed as
a Control Panel in your system. To access it, open
the Control Panel folder in the Main program group.
Double click on the icon named Desktop. In the
Screen Saver section, select VUSIC from the menu.
IMPORTANT TO ALL USERS:
You can set the delay time for the screen saver by
typing a Number in the appropriate box such as DELAY
IN MINUTES, WAIT, or DELAY. If no keys have been
pressed on your keyboard or your mouse has not been
used for the specified time, VUSIC will start up.
If you have a music CD in your CD-ROM drive, VUSIC
will select a track at random and play it, while
painting on the screen at the same time. If there
is no audio CD present, VUSIC will still randomly
generate its colorful patterns.
IMPORTANT: If you have another screen saver, such as After
Dark, you must disable it in order to use VUSIC as
your screen saver. It is also recommended that you
also disable any other screen savers when you use
VUSIC as a full application.
About HELP - Double click on the Question Mark icon(?) icon
for full screen context sensitive help.
PROBLEM WITH FILE SHARING ON MACINTOSH:
PROBLEM: When I try