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The Project 64 etext of the unofficial Music Shop documentation.
Converted to etext by anonymous, formatted by Frank Jeno Kontros
<jeno@kontr.uzhgorod.ua>, the Non Stop Cracker. The information in
this etext is assumed to be close enough to the original hardcopy
version until an original can be converted, which is likely to be
called MSHOP10B.TXT.

MSHOP10A.TXT, October 1996, etext #94.

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UNOFFICIAL MUSIC SHOP DOCS

I  will  not  go into the details of what everything does because
I do not know much about music.  You must experiment a lot to get
the commands down pat.


When using this prg your cursor is an arrow. Keep this in mind!!!

Immediately  after  loading the cursor will start moving all over
the  screen  because it is trying to go into demo mode but if you
don't  have  songs  on  disk  you  can't!  So press the button on
joystick#2.

CURSOR MOVEMENTS

To move the cursor  (arrow)  you can use the cursor keys normally
or use joystick#2. The button (or <RETURN>) is used for selecting
an option.

PLAY MUSIC

If  there  is music on the screen  and you wish to play it  press
<F7>  or  move  the  cursor  (arrow)  to  the  right arrow. Looks
somewhat like this (->). It will change to a trumpet when you get
near it.  Press the button.  To stop the music press the joystick
button again.

TOOLS

Move the cursor to this area of the screen.  Press button. A menu
will 'pull' down.  Now you can move the cursor to the section you
wish to choose.  It will appear in reverse characters.  Press the
button when the correct option is 'lit'.

     SETUP SCREEN

With  this  option  you  can  adjust  the  screen  colors,  staff
grouping,  and the key signatures.  When done  move the cursor to
the  small  box  in the corner of the menu.  And press the button
or <RETURN>.  WARNING!!!  Any change to these settings will erase
and song you may have in memory!!!

     GET NOTES... F1

You  can  either access this command this way or press <F1>. This
command  will  give you just about every note you will ever need.
Move  the  cursor to the note you choose  and press the button or
<RETURN>. You will now be taken to the 'sheet music screen' where
you  can  place the note.  If the note you need is supposed to be
upside  down  just  press  'u' from the sheet music screen. Place
this note and press  <RETURN>  or the button when it is where you
would  like  it.  You  can  not  place more than '3' notes in one
column because the Commodore 64 only has '3' voices. One for each
note!

     ADJUST SOUND  F2

This  section allows you to edit the parameters for the SID chip.
If  you  have notes in memory press <F7>.  The song will start to
play with the current parameters. You can now go to the different
selections and adjust them to you likes & dislikes.  If you don't
know  what any of the things are you can find out more about them
by seeing your  Commodore 64  Reference  Manual  or any book that
tells of the C-64's SID chip.

You will notice a section  labeled  'presets'  by choosing one of
these  and  customizing  it  you can have many different types of
instruments playing!

Some  of  the  things  you can change are  'slides'  you move the
cursor to them  and press the button.  Then you move the joystick
up or down depending on what you prefer to use.

When  you  first  start the presets are all ready set but you may
reset them to your hearts content!

When on the  Music Sheets  you can press the Commodore Key plus a
number between 1-8 to correspond to the 8 different presets. When
playing  and  the  computer  finds  one  of these symbols it will
change  the  preset  to  the  one  called for by that number! For
example if you down loaded  '1812 OVERTURE.MS' you will notice in
the  music  are  symbols  that look like a square around a number
this  is  where the preset changes. This is how sound effects for
fireworks are added to this song!

TITLE BAR

When you choose this option  you are asked many options  that are
very obvious.  For example:  Load Score, Save Score, List Titles,
etc.

     LIST SCORES

When  you  list  scores  you  will be shown a list of the current
songs  on  the disk in the drive at that time.  If there are more
songs  then  are  shown move the cursor to the 'box' in the right
corner  of  this  pull down screen.  Press the button and it will
show  more  titles.  Move  the  cursor to the song you choose and
press the button.  The song will then load. You can then edit it,
play it, or do anything to it you please!

EDIT

This section allows you to erase sections of the music, cut parts
out,  copy sections to another part,  clear out a section  to add
different notes,  paste a section on that you cut or copied,  and
finally undo a change you made.

The  best  way  to  learn  these  commands  is to load a song and
EXPERIMENT with these functions!

The  commands  do  what they say and if I was to describe them in
detail I would just confuse you!

FUNCTION KEYS!

With this program  the function keys are defined in the following
way:

     <F1>......Get Notes
     <F2>......Adjust Sound
     <F3>......Backward a page
     <F5>......Forward a page
     <F7>......Play the current song
     <F8>......Play song from current cursor position

With MUSIC SHOP you can write up to 20 pages of music!

So the main moral to this doc is to  EXPERIMENT AND EXPERIMENT!!!
That is the only way to learn the commands!!!   Everything I know
about this program was learned by experimentation!!

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End of the Project 64 etext of the unofficial Music Shop
documentation.

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