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- The Music Web
- =============
-
- -- Release 1.2 --
-
- The Music Web is an extensible environment for manipulating MIDI messages
- (and other data). This is a slight update of the first release, with a
- limited set of modules, including an 8SVX `instrument'. Please read the
- documentation for details. It is shareware -- suggested donation $35 US.
-
- The system requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or later to run, and really needs a
- fast machine to be useful. It is self contained, except for ppipc.library
- which must be in LIBS: (use the `Install Libs' icon). (Xicon and IPCQuit
- are used by the supplied icons, but to avoid confusion they are provided
- in the `C' subdirectory.)
-
- IMPORTANT: If you have unpacked this from an LHA archive, make sure that
- you used the `-a' option in your unpack command! If you didn't, things
- like the Traveller will have the wrong attributes, and things won't work.
-
- The manuals for the system are in AmigaGuide form (in the `GUIDE' drawer).
- If you don't yet have AmigaGuide, you can try ploughing through them,
- mentally skipping over the guide tags, as the text itself is pretty much
- linear, or you can contact me for a plain text version.
-
- + + +
- Release 1.1:
-
- The major constituents of this release are unchanged from the first
- one, but one missing item (IPCQuit) is present this time, an occasional
- Traveller problem is fixed, and a true `Split' ability has been added
- to the filter modules. In more detail:
-
- The program `IPCQuit' is needed (and invoked by the End_Services
- script) to shut down a couple of the service modules (Load8SVX
- and FileReq). This was omitted from the first release [Sorry!]
- but is now in the C directory. You may move it to your `C:'
- directory and edit `End_Services' suitably if you wish.
-
- There was a bug in the `loop-breaking' protection of the
- Traveller process that would cause it to `drop off' its path
- prematurely and return to the source, causing lost notes and
- things occasionally. This no longer happens.
-
- In the first release, `Filter' modules like KeyRange would
- just block the filtered events, so to split these to another
- path would require a branching path and a second filter. Now,
- these modules can instead `mark' events for a Split element
- later in the path to act on. For details see the guide.
- Mark flags required a minor change to the event format, which
- only affected MIDILink and MIDIMon; new versions of these are
- also supplied -- don't use the Split feature with older ones!
-
- Release 1.2:
-
- No substantive changes except a new version of the Web itself.
- Hopefully it will fix a *very* occasional hangup that seemed to
- occur on exit. (If you ever still find that the Web screen doesn't
- go away, please let me know!)
-
- While I was at it, I replaced Traveller with the current version,
- which compiled smaller. This should not have any noticeable effect.
-
- -- March 1994 -- Pete Goodeve
- 3012 Deakin St #D
- Berkeley, Calif. 94705
- USA
-
- (510) 848-2092
-
- pete@violet.berkeley.edu
-
-
- [A note on version numbers and `releases':
- there is no single `version number' for this stuff, because modules
- tend to evolve independently. Subsequent releases will probably be
- given successive identifying numbers in this README. For reference,
- the Web program itself is version 1.42]
-