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MusicTime Release Notes - 1/27/92

Welcome to MusicTime for Windows.  Included below are some
notes and bits of information which may clarify how MusicTime
works and what you need to do to get up and running.  

Thank you,

Passport Designs
100 Stone Pine Road
Half Moon Bay, CA  94019
(415) 726-0280

1.) MUSICTIME and MIDI

MusicTime can work with Microsoft Windows with or without the
Multimedia Extensions. We have provided MIDI drivers which
can either replace or act in place of the Multimedia
drivers.

If you are using Passport's MIDI drivers you need to find
out the port address and interrupt level your MIDI card
uses. If those differ from the Passport MIDI driver defaults
you need to use the MIDI Setup (MIDISET) program to get the
correct values into your SYSTEM.INI file. Run MIDI Setup
from the MusicTime Program Group in Windows, select the
appropriate driver from the list of Installed Devices, and
click Setup to change the port address and interrupt level.
If no devices appear to be installed, select the appropriate
device(s) from the list box to the left and click Install.

You can also edit the SYSTEM.INI file directly using Windows
SYSEDIT application.  Go to the [drivers] section of the
SYSTEM.INI file and manually add or edit the drivers as in
the examples below:

; default settings for an MPU-401
[mpu401.drv]
port=330
int=2

; for Soundblaster MIDI
[sndblst.drv]
port=220
int=3

; for port 1 on Passport's MIDI Transport
[trnsprt1.drv]
port=3f8
int=4

; for port 2 on Passport's MIDI Transport
[trnsprt2.drv]
port=2f8
int=3

The first entry, for instance, will tell Passport's MIDI
driver to look for your MPU-401 on interrupt 2 at port
address 330. Check your card and its documentation for help
on finding out what these values are. The above values are
the defaults. You need only add an entry to your SYSTEM.INI
file if your values are different than these.

If you use a MusicQuest MIDI card, Passport's drivers allow
you to access all of the cards 32 channels. Install the MPU-
401 driver for this card.  MusicTime will sense the presence of
the MQX-32 and offer two port choices in the MIDI Setup
dialog (see the User's Manual for more information about
MIDI Setup).

Windows provides a program which makes editing your
SYSTEM.INI file, and other system files, easy to do. It is
called SYSEDIT.EXE and can be found in your Windows system
directory. Add it to your Main group if you haven't done so
already. It is great to have around. Take care when you edit
these files, however. They must be just right for your
system to work. Keep backups around just in case.


2.) MusicTime's DLL FILES

There are two files (LOMIDI.DLL and MMSYSTEM.DLL if you are
using Passport's MIDI driver) which Windows must be able to
find in order to run MusicTime. They can reside in the Windows
directory, the Windows system directory, or any directory
set in the PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

The default behavior of the Setup program is to add your new
MusicTime directory to the PATH statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT. This
means that Windows will find the DLLs by searching the PATH.

If you wish, you can copy those three files into another
directory in the PATH or in the Windows directories and
remove your MusicTime directory from the PATH statement. If you
do this, make sure that the references to MusicTime.EXE (in any
group file items or in the [Extensions] section of your
WIN.INI file) use MusicTime's full path name since Windows
won't be able to use the PATH statement to find MusicTime.EXE.
This way you can avoid the expanding PATH statement
syndrome.

4.) TROUBLE SHOOTING

-> If you get the message 'Out of environment space' when
   booting after installing MusicTime, increase the environment
   size in your CONFIG.SYS file. The statement:

                shell=command.com /e:512 /p

   will most likely provide you with ample space. If not,
   increase the number after '/e:'.

-> If you get no MIDI I/O whatsoever, make sure that the
   SYSTEM.INI settings are correct. Check the card and its
   documentation to make sure of what the values are.

-> We have noticed that with Windows Multimedia Extensions
   MPU-401 driver in 386 enhanced mode, occasional incoming
   data is lost. This has been reported and (we hope) will
   be addressed in future Multimedia Windows versions. In
   the meantime try running in Standard mode (run 'win /s'),
   which we have had better luck with.