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- *** Program DiscGuitar ***
- v 1.0
- FEBRUARY 1993
-
- Author JOHN F. BERNER JR.
- 30-34 37 street
- Astoria NY 11103
- 718-728-3342
- CIS 71760,1371
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-
- This is a project I completed for school. If you find it interesting or
- useful, PLEASE LET ME KNOW as I would like to finish it.
-
- I am presently working on the following:
- 24 Frets
- Multiple tunings
- Mixer console (volume, panning, etc...)
- Full musical chord ability
- Tempo Control
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- Please read the following in its entirety before using the program !!!
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- The DiscGuitar is a computerized "playing" guitar capable of real time play,
- "sequenced" recording, and playback through the IBM PC speaker, or Creative
- Labs SoundBlaster card.
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-
- NOTE: This program works ONLY with a mouse! It will not work with a keyboard.
- however, when using the file open menu, you must use the "down" and "up" arrow
- keys of the keyboard ONLY.
-
- BUGS: There are no obvious bugs that I am aware of, however, occasionally
- during playback (especially with slower machines) the screen receives a
- "floodfill" of green. I haven't yet tracked it down, but it is rare.
-
- IMPORTANT: TO LOAD A SONG, click the left mouse button on top of the cassette
- tape area, for a list of available songs. Also, when saving a song, be sure to
- give it the extention "gtr".
-
- The file NOTES.TLB MUST be in the current directory.!!!!
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- OPERATION:
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- QUIT -
- Click on the black button on the upper right of the tape player
-
- PLAY -
- To play the guitar click the left mouse button on the desired note (for non
- guitarists, a note is played directly ABOVE the fret on the desired string).
- For an open string, click the right mouse button on the string. If you have
- a SoundBlaster card, you may select the (3) available instruments. The
- default is the Pc Speaker. The program has 10 instruments defined, just not
- in the menu yet.
-
- RECORD -
- Press the Record button on the tape machine (red). A red indicator light will
- go on in the middle of the tape unit, and the note counter should be reset
- to 0. Select a note value from the note menu (default is whole note). To input
- a REST, highlight the rest icon (rectange figure near note icons), and play
- any note with the left button. The note won't be recorded, but will rest
- according to the current note value. Press the STOP (black) button on the tape
- machine to end recording. You can play back immediately, and/or save the song.
-
- SAVE -
- Press the save button, and you will be asked to enter a song name. It MUST be
- given the extention *.gtr. ** This feature still needs to be converted for
- graphics input **
-
- LOAD -
- To load a song, click on the cassette tape area (window of tape machine). The
- list of available songs for playback will be listed on the upper left part of
- the screen. Use arrow KEYS ONLY to scroll through list of files. Press ENTER to
- make selection. Selection title will then appear in the cassette window.
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- PLAYBACK -
- After a song is loaded, or recorded, press PLAY (blue) from the tape machine
- to play back a song. As song is played, notes will light up on fretboard where
- fingering would occur, and the note description is displayed at the bottom of
- the screen. The LED counter also displays the sequential note number. The mouse
- cursor is placed on the Remote unit automatically.
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- PLAYBACK FEATURES (REMOTE) -
- The remote buttons: PAUSE, BACK, FORWARD, RESUME and STOP.
- During play back the buttons will do the following:
-
- PAUSE-
- This will pause tbe song. From here, you can use the other options.
-
- BACK-
- As you click, the song will play in reverse, allowing you to go back to
- a certain note, or part of a song. The LED counter will be adjusted
- accordingly.
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- FORWARD-
- Works like BACK, execept it will move up through the song.
-
- RESUME-
- Will continue playing the current song.
-
- STOP- (bottom)
- Will stop song completely, and exit PlayBack Mode.
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- Other features
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- On the Tape unit are several grey pushbuttons. Most are not defined yet.
- The that says STEP, will light red when you press it. It will PAUSE for
- a keystroke between each note during PlayBack.
- The one that says COL, will cycle through all the available colors, changing
- the fretboard.
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- ** F Y I **
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- Please Destroy SBCC.LIB, after you link. !!
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