PD Vivaldi
This is the music editor to go with TrackPlay.

If you want some help but you can't be bothered to read this file - or, if you need a little extra help - then run Acorn's !Help application.

Please send any suggestions for improvements or details of bugs to me, I would be very grateful.

I already know that I need to support MIDI, I just can't yet because I lack the manuals.

You can buy the whole package (also including a sample editor with multitudinous effects and a Digital Symphony file conversion program) for just 10 (VAT and P+P included), from:

Andrew Wood
7, Astley Grove
Seaton Sluice
Whitley Bay
Tyne and Wear
NE26 4JL
England.

Email: vivaldi@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk


You would also get a user guide, which of course you are currently lacking. The program is pretty self-explanatory, however, if you know these basic facts:

Music files are divided up in PATTERNS. One pattern is a lump of up to 64 notes and rests; each note or rest is called an EVENT.

Within the pattern, these EVENTS occur on up to 8 CHANNELS at once, so there can be a total of up to 8*64=512 events in a pattern.

The pattern data window pane shows one channel of the current pattern; the horizontal scroll bar indicates which one.

Patterns are played in the order dictated by the SEQUENCE TABLE. This is simply a list, from 1 up to 128 entries long, of which pattern to play next. Patterns are numbered from 0 up to 63.

Use Acorn's !Help application to help you get to grips with PD Vivaldi.

The function keys are used as shortcuts; if you print out the KEYSTRIP FILE (it is in Draw format) then you can use these useful shortcuts.

I strongly recommend that you also load TrackPlay when using this program, as it will give you more control over channels and things.

Enjoy the program... but remember that you can't save anything until you buy the full version!



THANKS
Thanks are due to the following people for their suggestions and support:
Daniel Barron
Robin Hunter
Martin Firth
Paul Wheatley

Special thanks to Robin Hunter, without whom the entire design would have been much less pleasing...