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- INSTALLATION
- ============
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- Locate the !MidiSupp application resource on your hard disc, and copy
- the !Debbie application from this archive into '!MidiSupp.PlugIns'.
-
- Thereafter whenever !MidiMan is run, !Debbie will appear in it's front
- panel, from where it can be launched.
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- READING
- =======
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- Refer to the !Help file within !Debbie for instructions on how to use
- the program.
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- If you're not too sure of the XG card's capabilities, then please,
- PLEASE read the help text. In the process of explaining !Debbie, I
- mention the XG's features.
-
- There are some pages on my web site which may also be of interest :
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- * A concise overview of MIDI :
- http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/lenny/midi/guide.html
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- * MIDISupport and !MidiMan :
- http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/lenny/midi/m4ms.html
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- PROBLEMS
- ========
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- No. Not a problem with !Debbie, though for a while I thought it was.
-
- The problem is with ESP's !Player application which only shows up when
- used in conjunction with !Debbie ...
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- When using !Player to play a MIDIfile, the musical timing of the
- sequence file gets really messed up when making adjustments to the XG
- from !Debbie. The musical timing will eventually recover, though it's
- an altogether unpleasant experience.
-
- Andre Timmermann's !DigitalCD uses the same MIDIPlay module as !Player
- and so this too suffers from the same problem (with MIDIfiles).
-
- However, when using !MelIDI to play a MIDIfile this problem doesn't
- occur. So I don't think it's !Debbie that's at fault.
-
- The strange thing is that once !MelIDI has been loaded, both !Player and
- !DigitalCD no longer exhibit the problem. You can even kill off !MelIDI
- and even remove all of its drivers and modules, and still !Player and
- !DigitalCD work okay. So, it would seem that !MelIDI does something
- (I've no idea what) to MIDISupport that prevents this problem.
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- Another benefit of running !MelIDI is that thenafter the MIDIPlay module
- (ie !Player and !DigitalCD) is less prone to interruption to the
- musical timing when dragging windows around or accessing the hard disc.
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- That's a bit of an advert for !MelIDI - 'buy it, it improves the
- scheduling of other MIDI applications' :o)
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-
- I recommend that you get hold of a copy of !DigitalCD as it can play
- many types of music files : trackers, samples, and MP3s as well as
- MIDIfiles. It is available from :
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- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/4471/
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