Hi,

I'm proud to announce the birth of the first release of a MIDI sequencer
called QSEQ. It has been designed to be quick and easy to use, with a lot
of useful and friendly features.

I wrote it originaly for my private use, but friends of mine like it too,
so you should give it a try.

The last version is probably available via anonymous ftp in:
louie.udel.edu:/pub/midi/software/ibm, file qseq-*.zip
oak.oakland.edu:/pub/msdos/sound, file qseq-*.zip

If you don't have access to ftp, I can email it to you uuencoded and split.

Here are its main features:

- PC compatible, with MSDOS 3.0 or greater. A PC-AT286 is enough.
- Support the SoundBlaster Pro MIDI interface.
- 80 x 50 text display, using direct video memory writing for speed.
- Highly secured and reliable MIDI playing kernel, totally independant from
  the user-interface activity (I worked for this!).
- Two recording modes: overwrite preexisting material or append.
- Punch in/out while recording.
- Recordable tempo change.
- 40 tracks, with many real-time parameters for each track, including
  selective MIDI events filters.
- Each track contains up to 16000 MIDI events.
- Each track can be looped a given number of times.
- Time resolution is 1/192th of a beat.
- Each track is individually mutable or can be set to solo mode.
- Powerful graphic manipulation of tracks and beats (copy, cut,
  paste, paste-over, join, transpose, etc...), thru a buffer.
- Powerful graphic edition of any MIDI event in a track (notes,
  control changes, aftertouch, bender, program changes, tempi, etc...).
- Tool to smooth continuous MIDI events variations and to filter out
  useless events by linear interpolation.
- Tool to create MIDI events by linear or curved progression.
- Sysex capabilities.
- Info screen to memorize useful information about a sequence.
- Real time visualisation in hours/minutes/secondes/hundredth of seconds.
- Load and save MIDI files or QSEQ format file.
- Easy manipulation of files and directories using browsers.
- Metronome click on the PC speaker or thru MIDI.
- And many many others features that I hope you'll like...

Files provided in the QSEQ package are:

- QSQ.TXT : the documentation.
- QSQ.EXE : the QSEQ program itself.
- TEMPLATE : an example of template for the INFO view.
- WHATISAY.QSQ and WHATISAY.MID : sample music file under QSEQ format and
  standard MIDIFILE format. I'm not the creator of this example I found on
  the net. I just modify it to make it an obvious example. Thanks to Ray
  Charles. I am giving this MIDIFILE, not selling it, so please Ray, if you
  read this (ooops excuse me!), don't ask me for any money... ;-)

OK, read the documentation carefully, with QSEQ running in front of you.
As a first test, type "QSQ WHATISAY". You may edit program changes by
typing 'V' and then press SPACE to play.

Hope you'll like it.

David.
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