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·P·L·A·Y·E·R·
"The Party'94" pre-release V0.9ß
1: Introduction
================
The Cubic Player (CP) is a music player which plays a variety of
sound formats on (at the moment only) SoundBlaster compatible cards.
Just in case you are not the lucky owner of such a device, we have
implemented a quiet play option, in order to let you experience the
player. Support for other sound cards (especially GUS) will follow
in final release. (GUS: v1.0, jan/feb '95, see below)
The player supports the following music formats:
MOD/NST, S3M (also ST3 v1.2), MTM, XM and MID. (DMF in v1.0?)
The current version is just a ß-version released at the Party '94,
and it should work correctly, but we could not test it on many
different configurations. So if you encounter any problems with this
product NOT mentioned in the text, feel free to contact us.
(adresses listed below).
The current version is freeware, (cardware if you like to.. :)
you may distribute and use the player with the following restrictions
- no commercial distribution (CD) without the written permission
of the authors
- no disassembling, no modifications and the usual stuff
- you may not charge any fee for copying this program except a small
copying fee
I hope we manage to keep it freeware all the time...
We do NOT take responsibility for probable damages or data loss etc.
Use the player at your own risk...
And in case you wanted to run the player under Microsaft Windoofs
we'll tell you right here that is is NOT possible!
(Hallo Herr Semsrott, diesmal haben wir eine automatische win-Sperre
eingebaut!)
We do NOT support half Operating Systems!
2: Using Cubic Player
======================
2.1: General Keys
2.2: Modes and Related Keys
2.3: File Selector
2.4: Command Line Options
Take your time to read this chapter, or you'll miss some of
the advanced options of Cubic Player...
You can simply start the player without command line options [and
filenames], the player will (after a short :) period of time) try to
detect your sound device and start playing the specified files.
If you have not specified any files, you will enter the fileselector
and can select a list of files of your choice.
Then you'll most probably find yourself in the instruments screen.
2.1: General Keys:
-------------------
these keys are valid throughout the player. (except the fileselector)
2.1.1: Very very general keys...
---------------------------------
F1 / ? / H : Online HELP
scroll with pgup and pgdn or ctrl-pgup/dn.
if the Help window :) is too small press z
return : next module
ctrl-return : like p in comparison with ctrl-p
p : II / => (pause and play) have fun... ;)
ctrl-p : this is a faster version of pause...
d : advanced dos-shell!
ctrl-d : less advaned dos-shell...
f : fileselector (see. 2.bla usage)
z : toggle screen size (25/50 lines)
esc : the taboo key... :)
quite useless feature, I think
2.1.2: Module Specific Keys
----------------------------
with these keys you can walk around in the pattern,
you have to press ctrl for all of them:
ctrl-right : go to next pattern
ctrl-left : go to previous pattern
ctrl-up : go 8 rows up in current pattern (rewind)
ctrl-down : go 8 rows down in current pattern (forward)
ctrl-home : restart the current song
2.1.3: Channel Options
-----------------------
The channels are displayed in all textmodes. In the graphic modes
there is a small box with the channel to let you know which channels
are active at the moment and which channel is selected.
There are 3 channel display modes toggled by c:
-no display: does exactly what it implies.
-small channels: shows from left to right:
instrument number, note, volume, effect and volume bars
-big channels: shows from left to right:
instrument name, note, note effect, volume, volume effect,
panning, panning effect, effect (written) and volume bars
If a note is struck it will be blue for the current row.
The note, volume and panning effects are described in 2.2.2.2.2
2.1.3.1: Channel Keys
----------------------
c : changes the size of the channel display
left / right : go to previous / next channel
up / down : go to prev / next channel with wrap-around
q : toggle currently selected channel
s : solo channel
1 2 3 .. 0 : goto and toggle channel 1 .. 10
ctrl-1 .. 0 : goto and solo channel 1 .. 10
ctrl-q/ctrl-s: turn on all channels
2.1.4: Volume Options
----------------------
these keys are for volume, stereo fx, speed etc.
they are arranged like the 2nd line on the screen for easy usage.
F2 F3 : dec/inc the master volume
+ - : this lets you adjust the m.vol. more precisely
ctrl-F2/F3 : dec/inc the amplification level,
this takes a little bit of time, so be careful
(We won't take responsibility for your ears..)
F4 : toggle surround (only in stereo mode)
flips one channel, makes the sound surround you...
a nice option if you have 4 speakers installed,
(a description of how to set them up below)
and even if you don't.
You will only hear it if some of the output is
equal on both channels... (combine it with panning)
F5 F6 : slide panning. panning shifts the sound to
the middle or exchanges the channels with each other
if you use headphones, set the panning to somewhere
in between middle and full. it will sound much much
better!!!
, . : finer panning
F7 F8 : slide balance
/ * : fine balance
F9 F10 : dec/inc playback speed (see ctrl-F12)
F11 F12 : dec/inc pitch (see ctrl-F12)
ctrl-F12 : toggle speed and pitch lock.
if on, a change in speed also will affect the pitch
and vice versa
ctrl-F11 : change filter, pretty useless with high sampling
rates... 3 different filters with increasing effect
n : resets the above values to standard
ctrl-n : saves the above values for the current session
2.2: Modes and Related Keys
----------------------------
Note: all previously listed keys are still valid in all modes.
h ? F1 : Help Mode (should be self-explanatory)
i alt-F4 : Instrument Mode (2.2.1)
m alt-F