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Premiere - Flash tracker. Description 4-channel editor of digital music, working with SoundDrive, from the author SoundDrive - Flash Inc.

29 июля 1997
ZX Format #06 
 FLASH TRACKER v2.1

         for SounDrive 1 .* only!
 Concepted and Written by AMADEUS VOXON

music by DNK
(C) 1996 FLASH Inc.
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 1.Vstuplenie.

Finally, it is time for the appearance of
muz.redaktora good for our offspring,
called SounDrive 1! There were so many
letters of request to send this product. But
Editor-in those days was so obscene a state that does not have:

   A) Disk system.

   B) Warrants song.
So all operations on the compilation of ready-to-file evolved to
hands and they were so cumbersome that they
deal would not be easier than in assembly I486, not to mention 
the fact that the unloading of the working files are also - 
Manually. The new editor released from all the shortcomings in 
the old and deserves special attention, especially

What is it - the only editor on SounDrive ...

 2.Parametry.


   Number of channels: 4

   Patterns 31

   Number of samples 13

   The length of the sample, 2,048 bytes

   Sample frequency F (t) = 3 5MHz, KHz: 11.5

   Module size, sector: 169

   Range, octave: 5

   The size of the pattern lines: from 1 to 64

   The speed limit, interrupts: 1 to 15

   Order size, position: 64

 3. Disk membrane.

The editor has a disk shell
provides loading and unloading (automatic removal) music 
modules. 

MENU:> EDIT SONG <

                LOAD SONG

                SAVE SONG
 Keys: <Q> and  - cursor up / down

          <Ent> Or  - select option


  LOAD SONG:

 Keys: <Q> and  - Select File

          <R> - Read directory

          <Ent> Or  - Loading

           - Output-cancellation


  SAVE SONG:


  You are given the possibility of unloading the name of the 
last unloaded file. To do this, simply click on <Enter>. Will 
be made automatically overwrite the last module without loss of 
disk space. In other cases - OVER WRITE-ordinary loss to the 
remote files.


 Keys: <Enter> - confirmation of input.

            - Output-cancellation

 4. How to be the editor? (EDIT SONG)

Very simple! Do not see what the editor is so small (2048 
bytes) tools: built-in oscilloscope and cycling can be achieved 
and sustained their sound. (In the PC-shnyh editors found 
samples and 16 bytes.). Such a small sample size is chosen in 
order to increase the speed of the player who kills in vain to 
crack a page. 

   The editor commands are executed pause
.- (RES) and the end of the pattern - (END). Thanks to the last 
it became possible to completely visually indicate the length 
of the pattern, not steaming over its calculation.  The command 
END is only in the channel "A", ostlnyh channels it is ignored.

She also put to the zero line
pattern, because the length of pattern
becomes zero, which generally loses any meaning. Remember this 
and do not say that it bugs! :-) 

   Keys: <Q>, , <O>, 
 - movement

            pointer.

             - Select option / exit

            of options (see below).


  Main Menu:


   > HEAR PATTERN  C-O,  C # O, <X> D-O,  D # O,

/  E-O, <V> F-O, <G> F # O,  G-O,
/ <H> G # O, <N> A-O, <J> A # O, <M> B-O,

            <R> RES, <E> END
<Enter> ---,  Out of options
/ <L> Promotka forward,  promotka ago
, <O>, 
 Change in the current sample, <Y>, <U>
Set the length of loop (Replen):
0000-all tools, 07F8-instrtument not
fixated. (That is - how much to withdraw from
start the tool.) With SMP = 0 loop is ignored.

RESTORE POS.: Zero line

              pattern.

CHANGE SAMPLE: Change Tool (clusters
                  Vichy 
 
). If SMP = 0,
then displayed on the display order. If SMP> 0,
it shows an oscillogram of the established tools, its name and 
length of loops. If the current tool is missing, the screen 
will display "SAMPLE ABSENT ".


CHANGE PATTERN: change the current pattern

                (The 
 
).

MOVE TEXT: send a block of notes
            Nogo text. This option is absolutely convergent 
with Sound Tracker'om. However, unit can be transported with 
some bend in the beginning. (In Sound Tracker'e is not done, 
although it should be!) 

CLEAR PATTERN: delete the current (editing
                 fix) pattern. Deduced

  proposal to the confirmation.

CLEAR CHANNEL: delete the current pattern

                 one of the channels in which
cursor editor. Deduced

  proposal to the confirmation.

ECHO DIVISION: Reduce the volume of the current
                 schego tool 2 times
to achieve the echo effect in writing.
Are prompted for confirmation.

CHANGE SPEED: speed of change

              (Klav. 
 
)

LOAD SAMPLE: download tool. File

              must have a "C"
and Senior Nibble start address to be
is # 80. The tool is loaded, if
SMP> 0. If SMP = 0, then choose "LOAD SAMPLE"
will edit the order. Editing a warrant executed by pressing the
the <O>, 
, <Q>, .

   POS - position in the warrant,
 PAT - number pattern in the warrant,
 LEN - length of the warrant,
- LPP - a new starting point for zatsiklivayas
       Research Institute.


  When downloading an instrument executed
certain conditions are met:

   1. Before loading the region of its landing
filled with codes # 80 to
shorter than 2040 bytes instrument had no clicks and listening 
to the end of the old tool.


   2. Instument length of more than 8 sectors
truncated to size.

   3. Tool length is 1 sector is ignored.

   4. Tool length less than 8 sectors,
but more than 1 sector is loaded at less than 1 sector, as the 
latter sector contains not only the right tool, but 

  a bunch of varied stuff.

   5. After downloading the tool is held to check for 0 and 
install the latest 8u zeros. 

I repeat: WITHDRAWAL FROM ALL selected options

         ARE KEY !

UNDO PATTERN: allows you to restore oshi
                erroneously entered data for
editing the pattern. When you change the pattern or send text 
function UNDO loses its ability to recover data. Confirmed the 
request. 

CLEAR SONG: removes all patterns without the possibility
             possibilities UNDO. Confirmed
Yes. Caution with this feature!



  How to listen to written?

Playback module: (from the position set out in ORDER'e):
,  + <E> - Playing without broaching musical notation.
 + <R> - Playing with wire musical notation.

It remains to add that during the editing pattern of the <1> - 
<5> perklyuchayut octave (only in finding

cursor in the field of music). Press the <7> - <0>
enable / disable the sound accordingly ABCD channels (only in 
finding cursor in the field of music and in the main menu

editor).


  Player is at address # 8000 and will work perfectly on a 
machine with separate field memory. As for the other 
procedures, the results of their work, I do not know. Interrupt 
vector is in the # FEFF and serviced by a full table.


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