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C-LASBo ftware P .0. Box 70 03 03 2000 Hamburg 70 Germany Dear Notator User, You are now in pos ession of NOTATOR 3.1, and we should like to thank you for your on-going vote of confidence in the quality of C-LAB pro ducts. To find your way around the disks that come with the update, please read on. The NOTATOR di k contains the necessary program files with an AUTO LOAD.SO , plus the SOFfLI K Multi Application Manager program for those of you with 2MB or more of RAM. The NOTEPAD opens automati cally once NOTATOR has loaded, giving information about the AUTO LOAD.SO . To top the NOTEPAD automatically opening, delete the ex clamation mark in the top lefthand corner and resave the AUTO LOAD.SON. While the program is loading, you may see some word appear on the screen saying "Kein Virus ..." . This indicates that the disk was immunized by C-LAB, and is telling you that there are no viruses on the disk. If the OT AT OR di k is damaged and will not load, there is an identical backup disk. The TUTORIAL disk contains practical example in the u age of NOTA TOR: the BASICS folder has 56 simple exercises and the EXAMPLES folder has 20 tasks for the more advanced. You will find more details in the READ_ME.TXT (double-click it, then click "Show": to croll the text press <Return> or <Spacebar>, to quit press <Control-C>) The DEMOSONG disk contain compo itions dedicated to various instru ments and hows something of what OTA TOR can do. Plea e read the OTEPAD for more detail . IMPORTA T! Make sure you save the SysEx contents of your synthesizer, since these demo songs contain Sy Ex data that will overwrite your device's data when you start the song. For more advanced U er , the REQUEST.SO contain ready-made dump re quests for various instruments. TR808.SON allow the Roland TR-808 to be synchronized to NOTATOR/CREATOR via the C-LAB HUMAN TOUCH. The FONT disk contains a selection of fonts for on- creen text and print ing. Examples of usage are in the FONTDEMO.SO (see al o the Operat ing Manual Chapter 13.6). Your C-LAB team Dear User, We are delighted with the interest you go on showing for each new version of CREATOR/NOTATOR we bring you. This Version 3.1 is an exciting one, both for CREATOR and NOT AT OR owners, and we trust that its new features and enhancements will be as musically-useful to you as we had fun developing it. Please read this addendum pages carefully! Then insert them into your CREATOR/NOTATOR ring binder. These new pages replace the corresponding existing pages. Where there is no existing page to replace, the new page is added to the manual at the appropriate page number. For example, a new page 11-23 would replace the old page 23 in Chapter 11. Chapter 20: "ARRANGE MODE" is completely re placed by the new pages. We also include a summary of the latest Version 3.1 rev1s10ns. Wishing you all the very best in music with Version 3.1. Your C-LAB team Version 3.1, - The Graphic Arrange Mode (GAM) allows ar Sequencer: rangements to be viewed and edited graphically. You can switch at any time between the GAM and the familiar arrange list. The numerous new fea tures GAM include new positioning methods, and chain-specific commands. - The GAM Scrub Mode allows the arrangement to be audio-cued forwards or backwards by mouse dragging. - The pattern window can now display "double pat terns" of 32-tracks. - New mute functions allow all tracks of a pattern to be simultaneously muted/demuted; also Solo Mute and Inverse Mute for easy track management. - Pattern can now be quickly deleted from within Pattern Overview. - Arrangements can now be saved to/loaded from disk. - CREATOR/NOTA TOR now support the Fostex MTC-1: remote control of Fostex tape recorders from your favourite sequencer (UNITOR is re quired). - Support for the C-LAB Steady Eye VITC synchro nizer is built into the software. Version 3.1, - Up to three independent voice of polyphony per Notation: stave. - Tracks in the "mapped drum mode" can now have a percussion clef. - A one-line percussion stave is now available. - Enhanced Note Attributes window: disabling of Interpretation/Rest Correction modes on a per-note basis; tie direction ; etc. - "Independent note " can be positioned anywhere and have a MIDI output. "Graphic notes" without MIDI can also be positioned anywhere; either type can be used for grace notes complete with slashed stem. - The "Process Note Attribute " function applies at tributes eg. enharmonic shifting or staccati/accents to the whole track or ju t a egment. Conditions and criteria can be et, depending on note position, Channel, length, pitch or velocity. - Page Preview is enhanced to include the ability to jump straight to a page, plu more. - Pages of print can be aved to disk as "IMG" files for further editing in DTP programs such as Cala mus. Advice on the The Mega STE come with a few files in partition C operation of the of the built-in hard di k. Some of these must be deac Atari Mega STE tivated for the successful operation of CREATOR/ computer with NOTATOR, and this is done via the new-style Con CREATOR/NOTA TOR trol Panel that comes with the Mega STE. The simplest way to deactivate a file is to rename the extension: eg "CPX" in the files WCOLORS.CPX, COLOR.CPX and MACCEL.CPX to, for example, "CPY". You will find these file in the folder called "CPX": to rename, click one of the files and select "Show Info ..." in the "File" menu. After that, open the "AUTO" folder and rename the file called "MACCEL3.PRG" to, for example, "MACCEL3.PRX". MEGA STE, Click "Control Panel" in the "Desk" menu. Now system settings double-click the "General Setup" panel and click the word "CPU SPEED". A small flip menu opens con taining three possible settings: select "16 MHZ - Cache off'. Now save this new default by clicking the "Save" button in the Control Panel. Now switch off the computer, wait a few seconds and then start it again. After these steps, CREA TOR or NOT AT OR should operate properly on the Mega STE. CONTENTS Overview 1. Introduction 2. First Steps 3. General Handling 4. Definitions 5. Positioning 6. Tracks 7. Recording 8. Types of Event 9. Event Editor l O Score Editor: Basic Functions 11. Score Display 12. Score Symbols 13. Text/Lyric Functions 14. Score Printout 15. Hyper Edit 16. Matrix Editor 17. Quantize, Groove Design, Adaptive Groove 18. Copy, Merge, Insert, Cut, Delete, Move, Swap 19. Event-Altering Functions 20. Arrange Mode 21. Overall Settings 22. Realtime MIDI Generator (RMG) 23. Realtime MIDI Functions 24. Transform 25. Tempo 26. Synchronization 27. UNITOR and the Other C-LAB Peripherals 28. Disk Operations 29. SOFT LINK Multi Application Manager 30. Appendix 31. Index Contents 1 Table Of Contents FOREWORD Original foreword _________________ l Version 3.0 foreword ---------------- 3 1. INTRODUCTION 1. Thinking of buying CREATOR or NOTA TOR? _____ 1.1 What do CREATOR and NOTATOR do? 1 ------ 1.2 Inventory: check the CREATOR and NOT AT OR contents ------------ 2 1.3 System requirements: ummary _________ 3 2. How to use thi manual 3 -------------- 3. For computer novices _______________ 4 3.1 Hardware (what you can see and touch) _______ 5 3.1.1 Computer and mouse ___________ 5 3.1.2 Floppy disk drive (internal) ________ 6 3.1.3 Hard disk drive (optional) _________ 7 3.1.4 Monitor --------------- 8 3. 1.5 Laser printers (for NOTA TOR) 8 3.1.6 Floppy disks ____________ 9 3.2 Software (the instructions that drive the hardware) 10 3.2.1 Atari ST operating system (TOS) 10 3.2.2 Program 11 3.2.3 Sequencer 12 2 Contents