Cadenza for Windows v 1.09 DEMO -------------------------- After you read this information Install will run the Addports program to finish the install process. Select the driver that most closely matches your interface. Also see the last section in this file for further information. Thanks for trying the Cadenza for Windows Demo. This file covers some information not covered in the DEMO.DOC file. This Demo is fully working with the following execptions - You cannot save anything. Sorry, but we want you to buy it! The Demo version of the MIDI Director will only run one interface driver and will only support one program at a time. ========================== The Contents of this file ========================== 1. Features of Cadenza for Windows 2. Information About the MIDI Interface Drivers **** Read this Selection if you are using the *** Multimedia Extentions!! ======================================================= Some Features of Cadenza for Windows ======================================================= **************** Now Supports Multimedia Windows Cadenza will now run with the Multimedia extentions installed in Enhanced Mode, not just in standard mode as in the past. The MIDI Director will use the Multimedia Timer if it is available and can also use the Multimedia MIDI and Synthesizer drivers. See the section on MIDI Interface Drivers for more information. **************** Activating the Tool Box in event edit windows The manual is a little vague on how to activate the event edit Tool Boxes. It is really easy. When you are in an event edit window pressing the right mouse button activates the tool box. **************** NEW MENU COMMANDS The following have been added to the Edit menu: Mark to Start Creates a block marked region from the beginning of the song to the current song position. Mark to End Creates a block marked region from the current song position to the end of the song. Mark All Block marks the entire song. Actually it removes all block marking. This has the same effect as marking the whole song. Note: The above commands remove any current block marking. ***************** ACCELERATOR KEYS Some of following key commands are short cuts to the menu commands. Others, which are used for block marking, have no corresponding menu command. F1 Short cut key for Help\Index F2 Duplicates Play Button F3 Duplicates Record Button F4 Duplicates Stop Button F5 Duplicates Rewind Button F6 Duplicates Fast Forward Button F7 Short cut key for Edit\Mark to Start F8 Short cut key for Edit\Mark to End F9 Short cut key for Edit\Mark All F10 Activates Menu Bar, then use arrow keys to select a menu and command. F11 Open new Note Editor F12 Open new Event List Shift+F11 Open new Velocity Window Shift+F12 Open new Controllers Window Ctrl+F11 Open new Aftertouch Window Ctrl+F12 Open new Pitch Bend Window Shift+F4 Short cut key for Window\Tile\Horizontal Shift+F5 Short cut key for Window\Cascade Space Bar The space bar doubles as a pause key while recording, and Play and Stop any other time. While in the Record Pause state, the Stop button can still be used to stop the recording. On the Numeric Keypad + Short cut key for Window\Zoom In. Only available when a zoomable window is the active (top) window. - Short cut key for Window\Zoom Out. Only available when a zoomable window is the active (top) window. ***************** MORE ABOUT CHANNELS The title bars for the Aftertouch, Pitch Bend and Controllers windows also show the channel number of the events being displayed. ======================================================= Notes about the MIDI Interface Drivers ======================================================= *** Using the MIDI Director -> MultiMedia Extentions Interface The MIDI Director and Cadenza for Windows now supports the MultiMedia Extentions. The MIDI Director will use the Multimedia timer, if it is installed, and with the help of the Multimedia Interface driver, it will use any Multimedia driver. This means you can use both a MIDI interface and a sound card, like a Sound Blaster, at the same time. You must have Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.0 with the Multimedia Extentions installed to use this driver. The Multimedia Interface driver will load all of your MME MIDI drivers and treat them as one multiport interface. You can use the MIDI Director Preferences program to exclude some Multimedia drivers when running the MIDI Director. This is valuable if you are running other Multimedia compatible programs and need to use the MME MPU401 driver. But when you run the MIDI Director, you should use the MPU401 driver we provide. This is because our drivers work better with the MIDI Director than MME drivers do. If you have a Music Quest MQX-32M interface, the MME drivers do not recognize the second port or the tape sync functions. The Big Noise MQX driver does. This allows you to get the most from your interfaces. The general rule is that if we supply a driver, use it instead of the Multimedia driver. *** Notes on the MPU-401 and MQX drivers. The MPU-401 and MQX-32m drivers are identical except for two features. The MQX-32m driver adds SMPTE and the MPU-401 driver has a flag for compatibility with CMS cards. The compatibility flag is really not necessary, since we also supply CMS-401-II and CMS-444 drivers in the retail package. Both interface drivers will work with the MPU-401, MPU-IPC, MPU-IMC, MQX-16S, MQX-32m cards and other MPU-401 compatibles. But if you want to use SMPTE on the Music Quest interfaces, you must use the MQX-32m driver. The MPU-401 driver will sense the dual outputs on your MQX-32m, just as the MQX driver does, but you can not use the built in SMPTE on your MQX-16s or MQX-32m. *** Notes on the Sound Blaster MIDI Driver The SBMIDI.DLL Soundblaster driver will work with both the older and the newer Soundblaster models. The older Soundblasters could not do MIDI Input while they did MIDI Output. To use the SBMIDI driver with these older cards, set the DSP flag to 0. You must then de-activate the input from the MIDI Director Control Panel, to beable to send MIDI Data to its output. If you have one of these older Soundblasters, Creative Labs will send you new DSP Chips that will allow simultaneous MIDI input and output for a very small charge. If you want to do serious MIDI, you need the newer DSP. *** Note on the CMS-444 interfaces The CMS-444 comes in two models, one with two ports and another with four ports. To use the supplied CMS-444 driver with the two port model of this card, you must set the 'Number of Ports' parameter in the Addports port setup for this card to 2. If you leave it set to 4, your machine will crash. *** Notes on The Key MIDIATOR The MIDIATOR is a great little interface. It comes in a 1 output and a 3 output model. The 1 output model is the MS-101 and the 3 output model is the MS-103. Be sure you use the correct driver, since you will get strange results if you select the wrong one. Again, thanks for trying our products. We hope you enjoy using the Cadenza for Windows Demo package.