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- Version 1.61 of this program incorporates the following changes:
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- 1. Will now play Master Composer Files from Commodore 64.
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- 2. Will now play Lyra Files from Color Computer.
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- 3. When creating an SMF file if the internal ST speaker is on the
- music will play at normal speed and conversion will be slowed.
- This enables a partial SMF file to be created and stopped at any
- point by pressing the delete key.
-
- 4. The mouse is hidden when a song starts. It is toggled to visible
- by pressing a mouse button and may be hidden again by pressing
- a button a second time.
-
- 5. Instrument presets can be changed while the music is playing
- using the mouse to allow you to experiment with different presets.
-
- 6. The MMM.TXT file was updated to refelect these changes.
-
- 7. SMF format 1 expanded to play a maximum of 20 tracks. Previously
- it was 16.
-
- 8. Allowed for larger initial delta time in SMF.
-
- Version 1.7 Includes the following changes:
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- 1. Antic Music Processor files will now play, including display of
- lyrics if included.
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- 2. SID stereo files will play if Alternate Format is selected. This
- increases the voices to 6 if .STR files are available.
-
- 3. Values in the note control window can be changed while the music
- playing.
-
- 4. Four different problems related to playing of MMS files were
- corrected.
-
- Version 1.74 Included the following changes:
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- 1. Playing of Music Studio fixed to permit changes of tempo or key in
- middle of the song.
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- 2. Other minor bug fixes relating to Music Studio.
-
- 3. Midi Music System player expanded to allow for most of special
- commands such as bump velocity, bump tempo, transpose, etc.
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- 4. Orchestra 90 player corrected to handle accidentals properly.
- Other minor bug fixes in Orchestra 90.
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- 5. File selector switch from GFA to GEM in hopes of clearing up a
- problem when using TOS 1.4.
-
- 6. Memory allocation changed.
-
- Version 1.8 includes the following changes:
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- 1. Screen display and colors modified to make room for level box.
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- 2. Maintain volume for master volume removed from program.
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- 3. Individual channel controls for volume added.
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- 4. Compress and expand for velocity range (all channels) added.
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- 5. MT-32 load and save parameters added.
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- 6. A problem with display of Music Studio Lyrics was corrected.
-
- Version 1.91 of this program incorporates the following changes:
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- 1. Will now play Adlib Files from IBM and compatibles.
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- 2. Will now play Cakewalk from IBM and compatibles.
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- 3. Improvements made for playing enhanced and stereo SID files.
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- 4. The intro screen for high resolution was modified.
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- 5. Color inversion of the display now possible using the "I" key.
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- 6. Titles and info now stay on the screen until another song starts.
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- 7. There is a faster response after pressing escape or delete when
- a song is playing.
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- 8. MT-32 save did not work at rev 1.86 and that was fixed.
-
- Version 2.0 Includes the following changes:
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- 1. Fixed bug where a few Cakewalk files did not play correctly.
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- 2. Added a configuration save and load. It saves MMM option parameters
- in a file for later recall.
-
- 3. Added capability to create SMF format 1 files.
-
- 4. Fixed a bug when playing SMF files relating to Meta Event block
- sizes.
-
- 5. Put help data in a separate file to reduce program size and
- hid help menus until selected.
-
- 6. Improved restriction to file select cursor movement when a menu
- is pulled down.
-
- 7. Fixed a bug relating to path names when using a file selector box.
-
- 8. Display of time signature added. It is not available for all music
- types.
-
- 9. Added Suppress Control Messages which stops midi data going to the
- syntheszier that affects synthesizer control such as portamento,
- channel pressure, etc. It only affects SMF and Cakewalk music.
-
- Version 2.1 Includes the following changes:
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- 1. Added Amiga DMCS to types of music played.
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- 2. Added Macintosh DMCS to types of music played.
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- 3. Added Cakewalk 2 to types of music played.
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- 4. Changed analyze song to show instrument names (where available)
-
- 5. Changed startup drive to correct value (improper drive was
- accesssed when using hard drive C).
-
- 6. Fixed scrolling song title error.
-
- 7. other internal changes that are not supposed to affect the
- operation were made.
-
- 8. Delay between songs (version 2.11) added.
-
- 9. Changed ST sound to refelect volume changes in the music. (2.12)
-
- 10. Fixed tied note playing when using ST sound in SIDs. (2.13)
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- 11. Fixed tempo for SIDs with negative jif. (2.13)
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- 12. Changed song selection numbering technique (2.14)
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- 13. Made possible the selection and scrolling of files using the
- mouse while a song is playing. (2.14)
-
- 14. Set up a different technique for turning notes off when song
- stops or pauses. (2.14)
-
- 15. Fixed a discrepency in the instrument present number in Music
- Studio and DMCS (midi only). M.S. played correctly but left the
- wrong number in the display. (2.14)
-
- 16. When mouse is enabled while a song is playing it must be clicked
- in the upper right hand corner to hide it. (2.14)
-
- 17. A new "box" was added called File Playing. It shows the file
- name of the song currently playing and the name of the next song
- to be played. (2.15)
-
- 17. A new menu item was added "Use Song Memory" which will load
- songs into computer memory when selected. Also when song memory
- is in use playing will occur from the songs in memory rather
- that read them from a disk file. This is limited to 124 songs
- and may require 2 megs of memory or more depending on the total
- size of the songs that are loaded. Songs can also be loaded by
- selecting them while others are playing (see 13 above) but this
- may interfer with the playing song so it is not recommended. (2.15)
-
- 18. Set Drum Track added. This allows channels to be specified as
- drum or other fixed tracks. This is done so that if the song is
- transposed up or down the drum track notes will remain the same.
- (2.16)
-
- 19. Key mapping changed. All keys map to mouse and menu functions.
- (2.16)
-
- 20. Define Keys added. When Define Keys is used you can change the
- key mapping of any of the fucntions where keys are used. To
- retain your changes you need to save the configuration. This key
- map menu also allows you to see the current key assignments.
- (2.16)
-
- 21. Full Screen Files was added in version 2.16. This allows you to
- look at all the music file names at one time. They can then
- be selected by clicking on the file name with the left mouse
- button.
-
- 22. Volume control by channels modified as follows: The old way was
- to use the numbers shown in the volume box as the velocity number
- sent to the synthesizer for that channel. It remained the same
- throughout the song. The new way allows volume changes in the
- song to occur at elevated or reduced volume level throughout the
- music. See the text file for more complete information (2.17)
-
- 23. The master volume control for the entire piece was also modified
- to behave by the same method as described above. It can now
- be used with or without the individual channel control. The
- control box will now display 100 instead of 1.0 indicating
- normal song volume. (2.17)
-
- 24. MMM.CFG is loaded automatically when MMM is started if it
- exists in the same directory. (2.17)
-
- 25. Bug in DMCS file tempo fixed. It was incorrect when the mouse
- was at the extreme right side of the screen. (2.17)
-
- 26. The tempo in the tempo box can now be modified by keys as well
- as the mouse while the song is playing. Default keys are + to
- increase and - to decrease, but these can be redefined. (2.18)
-
- 27. The tempo box can be made inactive while a song is playing.
- The default key for this is T. When this key is pressed while
- the song is playing the box outline will turn blue. When it is
- blue tempo changes in the music will occur but will not be
- displayed in the box. You can make changes to the tempo in the
- box with mouse or keys but they will not affect the tempo of
- the music. When the T key is pressed a second time the tempo
- box outline will change back to red and the song will then be
- set to the tempo displayed. (2.18)
-
- 28. Will now play Dr. Ts .ALL files. This works for those from
- Atari and Amiga and possibly other versions. You may have to
- adjust the tempo multiplier. See the text file for more info. (2.19)
-
- Version 2.2 includes the following changes:
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- 1. A mouse click through from a pull down menu to the song file
- selection box problem was fixed (hopefully for good this time.)
- This may have been more of a problem on a monochrome monitor.
-
- 2. Tempo box outline toggle for high resolution fixed.
-
- 3. Play function enabled for full screen file display.
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- 4. Note interrupt (instead of completion) can be used when
- skipping or aborting song play.
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- 5. Will now play Sound Blaster Creative Music (CMF) files. (2.21)
-
- 6. Preset number was incorrect when making a SMF file from a
- Music Studio file. That was fixed. (2.21)
-
- 7. A feature to control the interval between notes off and notes on
- when creating SMF files was introduced. (2.21)
-
- 8. Fixed problem in menu display where the check marks dissappeared
- when switching to help menus and back to program menus. (2.21)
-
- 9. Plays Dr. Ts CUB files. (2.22)
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- 10. Modifed Standard Midi File player so that it will handle system
- exclusives properly. (2.22)
-
- 11. Improved Standard Midi File player related to timing where there
- there is a very small time between two events. (2.22)
-
- 12. Corrected a problem related to using load configuration. (2.22)
-
- 13. Added the selected directory to load/save configuration. If the
- configuration file is saved in the same directory as the MMM
- program it will automatically use the saved directory after MMM
- is first started when you do "Read Directory". (2.22)
-
- 14. In full screen files, shows current song file playing (inverse)
- and next song below it in the lower right hand corner. (2.22)
-
- 15. Fixed "Locate and Read" on program load. (2.23)
-
- 16. Added an alert message when a key is redefined. (2.23)
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- 17. Removed Full Screen File Display (2.23)
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- 18. Changed scroll through the song titles so that you can do a block
- scroll by holding down the shift key as you use the up or down
- arrow key. (2.23)
-
- 19. Fixed a bug that occasionally caused the list of disk files to
- be displayed with a name repeated. (2.23)
-
- 20. Added an option (Make Preset List) that uses the names of the
- numbered synthesizer presets. You can use MMM to make an initial
- list or it can be made or modified with an external editor. When
- used it will show the preset name corresponding to the number that
- the cursor is over in the preset box. (2.23)
-
- Version 2.24
- 1. Fixed Set Synthesizer to FB01 which had a serious bug.
-
- 2. Added Load Preset List which will load a list of preset names
- already created. This list must consist of 128 names in the format
- as created using Make Preset List. That is, 12 characters followed
- by newline per entry.
-
- 3. Added Export Sysex File. This will load a system exclusive file
- (not SMF format) that has been made by another program and send out
- the data to the synthesizer. It requires the sysex files have sysex
- messages that start with hex F0 and end with hex F7. This will allow
- you to load sysex files that contain a new series of patches for your
- synthesizer.
-
- 4. Enabled the mouse cursor to show while the music is playing so that
- you don't click to enable it.
-
- 5. Remade the help files.
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- 6. Fixed paused on SMF files when using presets determined by MMM.
- Before this fix it would set the presets for all channels to
- zero when pausing a song.
-
- 7. Changed the title "Synthesizer Type" to "Set FB-01"
-
- 8. Display lyrics for SID music did not work and was fixed.
-
- 9. Changed so that when a new directory is read the values for the
- channel maps, level maps and preset maps are not reset to their
- initial values.
-
- Version 2.25
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- 1. Fixed Make SMF 0 and Make SMF 1 which failed to produce a usable
- file when control messages were encountered.
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- 2. Fixed Make SMF 0 which produced a file with partially removed
- set presets when making to from an original SMF file and
- selecting LP for presets.
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- 3. Performance improved when playing music with tight timing.
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- 4. Made more responsive for selecting songs while music is playing.
-
- Version 2.26
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- 1. The displayed instrument preset numbers were increased by 1 and
- now range from 001 to 128 (even though the midi numbers actually
- go from 000 to 127.)
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- 2. When using analyze music changes in the presets will be shown if
- you are using the music file to control preset changes.
-
- 3. Drum track set up and song delay set up now use dialog boxes.
-
- 4. Number of song to play before the delay occurs added to song
- delay set up.
-
- 5. If you want music to play when MMM starts change the name of
- DANCING.MID to MMM.MID.
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