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This version of PLAY IT BY EAR is intended to be used for demonstration
purposes only. The program is fully functional. After 10 minutes of
use the program will abruptly end.
Please refer to the on-line help feature for information on
the general use of the program. This file simply covers some undocumented
features and emphasizes some important things that you should know before
using the program.
MOUSE SUPPORT. You MUST have a mouse installed on your computer to use
Play It By Ear.
USING THE PC INTERNAL SPEAKER. The IBM PC internal speaker hardware was
never intended to be used for serious musical performance. The sound
quality is adequate and the pitch is accurate. Unfortunatly, this is only
true for single voice melodies. Simultaneous pitches, like intervals and
chords, are not feasible. We have seen some resourceful programmers make
the PC hardware approximate chords, but for the purpose of ear training the
results just were not good enough. Therefore, if you do not own sound
enhancing hardware, Play It By Ear will arpeggiate, i.e. play like a melody,
all interval and chord forms.
MORE ABOUT THE INTERNAL SPEAKER. The volume slider has no effect on the
sounds coming out of your PC internal speaker. Once again, the hardware
is too limited to make this practical. In addition, some MIDI keyboards
may not be sensitive to note volume commands. These keyboards will not
respond to the volume slider either. To regulate the volume, simply use
the keyboard's volume control.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS. Play It By Ear supports HERCULES, EGA/VGA and CGA
video adapters. At the start of the program the highest resolution mode
of your hardware is detected and used. You may force the program to use a
specific video mode by invoking the program as such:
EAR C (for CGA)
EAR E (for EGA)
EAR V (for VGA)
EAR M (for Hercules).
At the end of each exercise drill a message pops up that indicates how
you did for that particular response: "OK" or "OOPS!". For you power users
a command line option is provided to suppress this feature: EAR X. This
option may be mixed with one of the above video options, e.g. EAR C X.
SOUND BLASTER SUPPORT. If you own a Sound Blaster card you will need
to run the program using the "S" command line option. A convenient BAT
file, EAR_SB.BAT, has been included on the master disk that does this for
you. So, to make the program recognize your card, type either of the
following at the DOS prompt:
EAR S
EAR_SB
SOUND BLASTER MIDI. Version 1.00 of Play It By Ear does not support the
MIDI expansion module of the Sound Blaster card. If you own the Sound
Blaster card with the MIDI module, or think that you may purchase one in
the future, please be sure to fill out and send in the registration form
so we can let you know when it is supported.
Play It By Ear is available directly from the publisher:
Ibis Software
90 New Montgomery Street, Suite 820
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 546-1917, voice (415) 453-0346, Fax
It is also distributed through the following national software
dealers (among others):
Egghead Software
Soft Warehouse
Waldensoft (Walden Books)
Software, Etc. (B. Dalton Books)