MIDI Machine V0.89 Beta (c) Excel Progs/TOW Development 1994 I. Info about Excel Progs/TOW Development II. Introduction III. What You Need IV. Running MIDI Machine V. Support Info. VI. Registering VII. Revisions I. Info about Excel Progs/Tow Development MIDI Machine V0.89 Beta by Excel Progs/TOW Development MIDI Machine was written by Andrew Malek of Excel Progs, and is distributed by Joe Passmore of TOW Development. For more information, contact Excel Progs at: Excel Progs c/o Andrew Malek 434 Gallaher View Road Apt 60 Knoxville, TN 37919 Or, contact either Excel Progs or TOW Development via The Other World BBS of Knoxville, TN. TOW BBS: (615)-577-9342, 7 14.4k lines, Games, No Ratio, More II. Introduction Congratulations for choosing MIDI Machine as your MS-Windows(c) MIDI player! Midi Machine is the latest of Excel Progs line of excellent products for the IBM(c)/clone computers, and like all EP products, it is backed by full support. Midi Machine allows you to play the .MID (MIDI) files that are seen all throughout the world. Midi Machine also allows you to play the standard .WAV (WAVEAUDIO) files. MIDIs cover all genres of music, including: o Jazz/Blues o Rock/Pop o Soft Rock/Easy Listening o Classical and many more styles of music are represented by this music file format. WAVs cover all types of sounds, including: o Instruments o Music Clips o Voice-Mail o System Events and many more types of sound files are represented by this audio file format. III. What you Need In order to play music with Midi Machine, you must have: o MS-Windows 3.1 or higher o A Midi-compatible sound card (SB, SBPro, GUS,..etc) o Installed MIDI drivers for Windows o VBRUN300.DLL (found at many fine BBS's and distribution networks) If you wish to only play WAV files, the midi drivers and midi- compliant sound card are not needed. You will, however, need WAV support and drivers. IV. Running MIDI Machine In order to run Midi Machine, you need to copy, unpack,..etc the files you received. Next, copy the MCI.VBX and ANIBUTON.VBX files to your main Windows directory. Get VBRUN300.DLL from your distribution site (or The Other World BBS), and place it to your Windows directory. Add the Midi Machine icon to your program manager or equivalent (or just run it straight using your pm's run command). Midi Machine will execute and bring you up to the main status window. This window is divided into several parts: o Drive selection window This will allow you to choose which drive Midi Machine will pull the Sound files from. o Directory selction window This will allow you to choose which directory Midi Machine will pull the Sound files from. o File selection window This will allow you to choose the individual Sounds that you wish to add to your playing queue (see below). o Sound Playing queue This will be a list of Sounds that you have selected to play, in order of selection (note that the order the Sound files are selected are NOT exactly the order in which that they will be played! See below for more options). o Buttons Buttons are the method by which you can tell MIDI machine what to do. These buttons are as follows: (R)ename Allows you to rename or move a sound. (D)elete Allows you to delete a sound. (I)nfo Allows you to get information on a sound. Note that this can be done ONLY when you are not playing any music. (A)dd Allows you to add a sound file from the file selection window to your Sound playing queue. Add A(l)l Allows you to add ALL sound files from the file selection window to your Sound playing queue. R(e)move Removes a sound from your playing queue. (C)lear Clears ALL sounds from the queue. A(b)out Information about Midi Machine (H)elp Displays help about Midi Machine Setup Goes to setup screen, where you can choose the animated icon which will be displayed when you play MIDIs and WAVs (the two groups allow separate icons.) E(x)it Exits Midi Machine (S)tart Start playing sounds! (N)ext Skip to the next sound. S(T)OP! Abort all sounds. Keeps any songs in the queue available for playing. (P)ause/(P)lay This button changes depending upon the state of the sound. You can temporarily pause the sound output and then resume later. o Check boxes These check boxes allow you to change the order in which Sounds are being played. Simply click on the boxes to change the playing direction. Ran(d)om Plays the sound files randomly. (B)kwrds Plays the sound files backwards. C(o)ntin. Plays the sounds continuously. This button is only visible when you are in selecting, not playback, mode. V. Support Info. This is a beta version of the upcoming full release of MIDI Machine. All possible time has been spent removing errors from this program. I hate receiving Windows programs that constantly crash, and I'm sure you do also. Under normal usage, the program has been known to work very well. Very infrequently (and under non-normal usage, as the main beta-tester can attest) the program has hung on a WAV. If this does occur, pressing the "Next" button should continue the program on its way. If you notice any other errors, please let me know. I can be contacted by the following ways: 1) SASE at the Excel Progs address. 2) E-Mail on The Other World BBS as Jman. 3) [Temporarily] by Internet E-Mail: admalek@sacam.oren.ortn.edu VI. Registration Registration is $15.00, which will give you the first full release of Midi Machine with your name on the title bar (nothing profane, please!) Company/government registrations are as follows: 1-10 licenses / $17 @ 11-50 " " / $14 @ 51-100 " " / $12 @ 100 & up / Your company must not be doing much work (hehe), but the cost will be $10 @. Mail the check or money order (NO CASH), your preferred disk format (3.5 or 5.25 double density), and your name or company name to: Excel Progs re: Midi Machine registration c/o Andrew Malek 434 Gallaher View Rd Apt. 60 Knoxville, TN 37919 VII. Revisions V0.7 First Beta Version (For TOW Development beta-testing) V0.75 Misc. Features Added a minimum button. The text colors were changed from blue to yellow, letting the text stand out more. Altered the text in the "About" box slightly. You can now rename one file at a time (fixed), and it displays the name/size of the file in the box. Traps any errors in rename procedure. Ability to delete multiple files. Allows canceling of delete procedure. Traps any error in delete procedure. Able to play MIDIs in continous mode. In the title bar, as well as when the icon is minimized, the text is changed to the midi name when playing, or "Paused..." when paused. V0.78 Graphics/More Minor Bug Fixes Added Setup Screen Added moving picture ability when midis are being played Created "Conducter," "Music Notes," "Feel the Music" animation sequences V0.83 WAV Support, Graphics/More Minor Bug Fixes Stopped "flicker" when changing icons in setup mode when playing midis. Added WAV support Added WAV icon support. Created "Ear," "Wave," "Oscil" animations. Added new feature of "Smart-Renaming"... wav files will add .wav extension if left off, mid files will add .mid extension if left off. V0.86 New About Box/More Bug Fixes Renaming a file to itself will not display error New "About" box New "About" and "Setup" box formats...windows stay on screen until you want them to be removed. You can have all three windows on at one time. V0.88 Bug Fixes/Speed Improvements Bug Fixes Increased speed with animated icons. When Midi Machine is minimized, the graphics will not move...speed increase. V0.89 First Official Beta Release Bug Fixes VIII. Warranty/Disclaimer NEITHER EXCEL PROGS, TOW DEVELOPMENT, ITS EMPLOYEES, SUPERVISORS,..ETC, TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OUTPUT OF THIS PROGRAM. YOU, THE USER, TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE USAGE OF THIS SOFTWARE. Microsoft, Windows, are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. All trademarks are the property of their respective companies. Midi Machine (c) 1994 Excel Progs, All Right Reserved