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SynthInit

by

Mike Nuzzi (Triad Venture Inc.)

SynthInit is a finder extension that allows you to play MidiSynth songs from the
finder.

Place the SynthInit file in your System.Setup or FinderExtras folder, and reboot
to make active. You should see a "Seq" Icon on the bottom of the screen to
indicate that SynthInit is active.  Tool 35 (MidiSynth)  must be installed in
your Tools folder.

To play a MidiSynth song, double click on the Icon of a MidiSynth Sequence File.
As all other programs that play Midisynth songs, the Seq, Bnk, and Wav files must
all reside in the same folder. You can, however, drag the Seq Icon to the desktop
and play it from there.

Holding down the Open-Apple key and Double clicking a seq Icon will direct the
sounds to both the GS speakers and a Midi Keyboard. You must have the Midi Cdev
and selected Midi Driver in their respective folders.

SynthInit allows selection of multiple files to play. You can add additional
files to the queue by either double clicking on them at any time before the final
song is played, or by selecting a group of files at one time.

SPECIAL KEYS To play the next queued song hold down the Open-Apple Key and press
the Right Arrow Key. To play the previous song, hold the Open-Apple Key down and
press the left arrow key.

To Stop songs, Hold down the Open-Apple Key and press the space bar. All queued
songs will stop. When you launch a file or otherwise leave the Finder all songs
will stop.


MidiSynth and Finder

MidiSynth runs in the Background and uses what are called Interrupts. Since
Finder can and does disable interrupts during critical operations like disk
copying, and the like, it is possible that notes can stick or hang. If this
happens, press Open-Apple Space to stop MidiSynth. It is not recommended having
Synth Songs playing while doing time critical work in the Finder.

I hope you enjoy using SynthInit as much as I did creating it. SynthInit is a
freeware program. Feel free to distribute it far and wide for non commercial use,
but keep this Teach file and SynthInit together.

All I ask is the you consider purchasing the commercial programs of Triad Venture
so I can afford to release more FreeWare utilities like SynthInit. Loyalty is a
two-way street......

Mike Nuzzi Triad Venture (516) 732-3771 AOL -  Nuzz Genie  - M.Nuzzi