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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
** F Y I **
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Please Destroy SBCC.LIB, after you link. !!
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