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Midisoft Recording Session, Version 1.07 Demo
Information For New Users
Thank you for trying Midisoft Recording Session. We greatly look
forward to satisfying your sequencing needs now and for many years to come.
This version is for demonstration only, and the SAVE features have
been disabled. This represents one example in our line of business,
entertainment, and educational music software products. For information
on this and other products, please contact:
Midisoft Corporation
PO Box 1000
Bellevue WA 98009
USA
Phone: 206-881-7176
FAX: 206-883-1368
ISSUES YOU MIGHT ENCOUNTER WITH THIS RELEASE:
1) If you find that occasionally you lose the mouse cursor, you might be
encountering a hardware conflict between Mouse and MIDI that occurs
rarely in Enhanced-mode Windows (on VERY FEW machines). If you use our
program in Standard-mode Windows (Start Windows with WIN/S), this
problem disappears.
2) If you have trouble getting MIDI Input, the problem is very likely
a hardware interrupt conflict. Take inventory of the other cards you
have in your system, and make sure the MIDI card has a unique
interrupt level and I/O address. Note: The Windows Drivers for MIDI
use Interrupts only for MIDI In, not for MIDI Out. So if MIDI Out
(playing) seems to work fine, that is NO indication that you have your
card's interrupt set correctly.
3) If you have trouble getting playback, we recommend you simplify your test
configuration by simply using the Media Player provided in Windows.
This program will play back any of the MIDI files provided with
Recording Session provided that you have configured your MIDI Mapper
to playback the low channels (1-10). If you can successfully get
the MIDI Mapper to playback within Windows, then you will be able
to get Midisoft Recording Session to playback by selecting MIDI Drivers/
Multimedia Drivers/MIDI Mapper from the Setup Menu.
4) When in Score View, if you have trouble selecting notes to edit, you might
try changing the clef to make sure the notes appear on the staff.
Another option is to start a Click & Drag region from within the staff
and end it outside the staff. Similarly, to select rests (for the
Splice Cut/Paste operations), do so by selecting click & drag region
that includes the rest.
5) If you are running on a 2Mb computer, your usage of memory will affect
the operation of our program. We recommend that you use HIMEM.SYS
(to access the high 384K Extended Ram), but don't tie up any
RAM into SMARTDRV.SYS. If Midisoft Recording Session claims not to have
enough memory, Windows might not be correctly detecting high memory.
On a 2 Mb configuration, we recommend you ascertain that Windows has
at least 900K available before running Recording Session. You can
check your available memory by selecting "About Program Manager" in
the Windows Program Manager's Help menu. We do not run in 640K
machines (and thus not Real Mode Windows), nor do we suggest
using Expanded RAM (Windows runs best using EXTENDED RAM, not
EXPANDED), or trying to run on a 1 Megabyte computer.
6) Because Midisoft Recording Sessions' MIDI drivers require instant access to
memory, problems can be avoided by not using memory managers (such as
earlier versions of QEMM) which intercept and map memory calls.
We recommend that you simply use the HIMEM.SYS driver that comes with
Windows. Similarly, TSR programs that are feeding off your computer's
clock can also cause problems. If you are getting machine crashes or
lock ups, we suggest clearing out your machine's startup files
(AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS) to the bare minimum (even remove DOS shells)
and try running Recording Session again before contacting our
technical support department.
Specifically, remove non-essential entries in your CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, as well as bringing down the FILES= and
BUFFERS= values in your CONFIG.SYS. If you are using DOS 5 (or later),
also make sure that you have a DOS=HIGH entry in CONFIG.SYS.
7) Currently, our stand-alone Roland drivers are more efficient and more
robust than those included in Windows 3.1. For this reason, we
recommend that if you have a Roland-compatible or Midisoft Midiface
card, use our drivers instead of those in the Win31/Multimedia
Extensions. To do so, select "Midisoft Drivers" from the
"MIDI Interface" dialog box.
8) A little hint about changing a note's pitch: Use the SHARP and FLAT
tools (in the note palette) to click on a note and change by
a half-step. This can be used repeatedly to change a pitch as
far as you desire.
9) We recommend you read the file entitled MAPHELP.TXT for some hints
on solving problems related to the MIDI Mapper.