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Note: from GS WorldView Editor - 7/6/99 Ref. url: http://www.grin.net/~cturley/gsezine/GS.WorldView/************JULY.99/OLD.RARE.WARES/ Music.Seq.Maker.IIgs/ I found this 'IIgs RareWare Classic' - a Music Studio song to synthLAB sequence converter program on one of my old 3.5 disks and having never seen it released to any of our Apple IIgs ftp or web sites, I wanted to make sure that it wasn't lost forever from the access of the existing and new IIgs users that might find it of useful value with their music and sound conversion efforts. There was no text documentation file for this program included on my disk, that I found it on. So, I typed the following information that is included within the actual program and available from the Help menu item, intro screen and other menu items. The program was written in TML Pascal and the author offered the source codes for the program for an additional charge above and beyond the shareware fee noted in the documentation file below. I have located and contacted the author by telcon to request these source codes and also request for a reclassification of the program from its shareware status to either freeware or public domain. More on that as it becomes available. As of this date, Paul will be reclassifying all of his IIgs software/programs as either; freeware or public domain. I'll make his email to this effect available from this folder as soon as I receive it. He intends to furnish me with his source code for all of it also and when I have that, I'll archvie it all and make it available from this website and also upload it all to our Apple2 ftp site 'Ground' as ShrinkIt archives. Remember, this program was written in 1989. To make things easy with saving the three files mentioned in the help menu from this program and the doc file that follows below: for use with loading them with synthLAB, use; BNK - rather than INS WAV - rather than WVE I've never know of any other IIgs program that could do all of the things this program can do. So, I've made it available as such in the GS WorldView JULY.99 gsezine issue folder and will also upload it to our Apple2 ftp site 'Ground'. I hope you will find it of useful value. Cheers, Tom ------------------------------------ About: Music Sequence Maker - v1.09A (c) Paul Gauthier - May 1989 This program is offered as "ShareWare with a BONUS" Try the program out for 10 days. If you can't use it, pass it along to someone else. IF you want to use it, send $20 ($18 if you enclose a 3.5" disk) to the address below. You will get the llatest version of the program, updated documentation that shows you how to load, play and control sequences. Send the ShareWare registration fee to: Paul Gauthier 67 Sleigh Rd. Westford, MA 01886-3908 How to Use The Sequence Maker Program This program lets you convert Music Studio song files to "Sequence Files". "Sequence Files" are the music files used by synthLAB. Step 1. Load the song file (Songs Menu). Any Music Studio song file can be loaded. You can play the song with the Play Song menu item. Step 2. Convert the song file (Songs menu) This creates the sequence in memory. You can play the sequence with the Play Sequence item. Step 3. Save the sequence to disk (Sequences menu). Three files are saved: YourFileName.SEQ - The sequence file with the notes. YourFileName.INS - The instrument definition file. YourFileName.WVE - The sound wavefor file. You can also load and play sequence files without converting them. With the Sounds menu you can load and play digitized sound files. What Are Sequence Files Anyway? A Sequence file contains musical information that can be played by the IIgs Note Sequencer Toolset. The file contains things like note semitone values, time durations, instrument ID numbers and other info that tells the IIgs what musical sounds to produce. Any program you write can play a Sequence file in the background under interrupt control while your program does other things. All you have to do is load the file into memory and call the Note Sequencer routine StartSeq with a pointer to the start of the sequence. See the source code for the program PlaySeq to get an example of how to start up the Note Sequencer, load sequence files and play them.