

     Delay Calculator v1.2E                        Carl Lofgren
                                                   Arkov. 51
              by                                   121 55  Johanneshov
                                                   SWEDEN 

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Manual    for   v1.2E,    last     modified     21      may      1994.
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				INDEX

			1) General Information
			2) Shareware
			3) About the Delay Calculations
			4) About the Hz Calculations
			5) About the BPM Calculations
			6) Program/Accessory modes
			7) Test equipment and programs
			8) Bugs and restrictions
			9) Registrations
		       10) Phuture developments
		       11) How you can contact me


1) General Information
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   This program helps you with  various calculations  in  different
   music situations. These calculations are not very hard to figure
   out by yourself (if you were listening  to your  math-teacher at
   school  that will say)  but when  I make  music,  I want to make
   music. NOT doing calculations. Even how easy they might be.

   As you might have seen, this program is not the only which makes
   "music" calculations, but what makes this program different is :

		a) Shareware. Total cost: a stamp and a disk.

                b) VERY easy to handle.

                c) Direct support from the programmer.
                   that will say, by me...:-)

                d) Very stable, on almost ANY setup. It won't 
                   make your computer go mental.

                e) You can use the program as BOTH an accessory,
                   and as a program. Just change the extension.

                f) It doesn't use a lot of memory.

                g) It supports most resoultions.

   Besides,  if  YOU  support   the   program,  I   will  certainly
   continuing making updates. And I do have some plans for it. Read 
   on.


2) Shareware
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   Delay Calculator is NOT Public Domain.  It's SHAREWARE. It costs
   one  double sided disk to get registered  (no name is alright!).
   Extremely expensive, don't you think? PLEASE show that shareware
   works. If you want the latest version please contact me and I'll
   tell you if there are any new versions in sight.

   When you register, please let me know your set-up, including
   all MIDI-related stuff, and where you found the program.


   This is version  1.2E ----- In what language the program is in.
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                    | |______ The number of the update.
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                    |_______ The versionnumber.


   Currently, the program is  available  only in English. A version
   in  French is  under  rethinking.  I could  also  make a  German
   version. Please let me know if you want one.

   Please read HISTORY.TXT for more  information about all released
   versions.

   The program is divided into three main parts.


                       a) The Delay Calculator

                       b) The Hertz Calculator

                       c) The BPM Calculator


3) Delay Calculator
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   What it does:

   As your  brilliant track is going in a specfied tempo  (in BPM),
   the delay  is also set in a tempo  (but in mS).  What this  part
   actually do is  converting  BPM to mS.  You can  make the  delay
   bounce  in right tempo  but with  some more  swing by  using the
   different styles.  Try them out,  and you'll hear which ones you
   like and which one's you don't.

   How you do it:
 
   Just enter the tempo in the BPM box.  And press  "Calculate"  or
   press  <Return>  and a box will pop up with the delay values. If
   you want to use a style,  select the desired style  ("Swing" for
   example) and then do the same thing as above.  Press "Calculate"
   in other words.


4) Hertz Calculator
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   What it does:

   This function converts the BPM to Hertz.  This is VERY useful if
   you own a  synthesizer  were  you set  -for example-  the LFO in
   Hertz.  I know only  one synth that  does that,  and that is the
   Kurzweil K2000. Yes. I own this monster. And I'm very happy that
   I do.

   NOTE! That the this function will  not  be affected by the style
   setting.  I might make it so, but... well. The day I have time I
   might do that.

   How you do it:

   Just enter  the tempo in the BPM box,  and then  press the  "Hz"
   button, and a box will show with some acceptable values.


5) BPM Calculator
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   What it does:

   You can use this function  when you want to figure out the tempo
   of  a track, a sampled beat,an acapella or whatever it could be.

   How you do it:

   After you have pressed the  OK  button,  the program  will start
   recording your input.  Hit the space-bar for each beat. The best
   way to  get the  best result,  is to  play  the  track  (or what
   it could be)  and hitting  the space-bar  as  the  track  plays.
   Usually  8  hits should be perfectly enough,  but the more beats
   you are entering  the better result.  I have put a maximum limit
   to 50 beats. 

  Press ESC whenever you want to stop, or exit to the main menu.


6) The program will work as an accessory and as a program
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   The program works both as an accessory  (ACC),  and as a program
   (PRG). Just change the extension.


7) Test equipment and programs
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   It has been tested on following models :

   STFM (TOS 1.02/1MB),
   STe  (TOS 1.062/2MB),
   Mega ST (TOS 2.06/4MB),
   TT (TOS 3.06/8MB with or without Fast-RAM),
   Falcon030 (TOS 4.02/14MB).

   It has also been tested together with follwing programs :

   Name :                Compability :
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   1ST Word Plus v3.10   No problems.

   Avalon v2.0           No problems.

   Cubase v2.0		 No problems. I use it almost every day.

   DarkLord v3.10        Some minor bugs.  When having the DarkLord
                         window open,  and using the  Calculator on
                         top of it,  it can happen that the  mouse-
                         pointer  disappear!  Strange indeed.  I'll
                         have  to  check  with  the  programmer  of
                         DarkLord.
                         Otherwise. It work without any problems.

   Delay Calc. v1.1E     Yes. Incredible, isn't it?  No compability
                         programs with itself.

   Gembench v3.40        No problems.

   K4-Editor by Geerdes  PROBLEMS! But NOT caused by my Delay Calc.
                         Same problems  happens with  the excellent
                         screen-savers  Before Dawn  and  DarkLord.
                         The graphics are not correct re-drawn.

   MIDI Quest Jr. v2.16  No problems.  But  you  can't  access  any
                         accessories within  MIDI Quest Jr.  It has
                         got an GUI of it's own, unfortunately.

   NVDI v2.50            No problems.

   X-oR v1.12            No problems.


8) Known bugs / restrictions
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   It will NOT work in ST-Low or in TT-Low. And there will probably
   be no support for those resolutions either.  Who run a sequencer
   in Low-resolution?

   If you have for ex. 4  windowns open on the desktop and you open
   DC as an accessory,  it MIGHT  happen that some fragments of the
   dialogs  will stay  in the windows  for a while.  When  you exit
   everything will be normal again. I don't see this as any serious
   problem,  and for the moment I use my energy to deal with  other
   things.

   As you might notice the boxes will update VERY slow when running
   another program in the  background (such as Cubase).  Please try
   to avoid entering the menubar while the boxes are updating. This
   COULD lead to problems (not very serious  problems, but anyway).
   One way to  avoid this  is to get  NVDI.  It's probably the best
   screen   accelerator.   It's   also  recommended  by   Steinberg
   themselves.

   NOTE!   I won't take ANY responsibility if my program will cause
   the  system  to  crash,  and  important material disapperars. It
   shouldn't  be  possible, as  the  program  has been  tested very
   carefully by many good  beta-testers,  and they all say that the
   program behaves  well in terms of releasing  memory and usage of
   GEM.


9) Following people have been kind enough to register
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   1. Mats Orveland, Sweden.
   2. Alex Camanini, Italy.


10) Phuture plans
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         o Hz-calculation will be controllable by the Delay-sort.

         o Note-representation of the delay.

         o A  Delay Creator,  which will allow  you to use your OWN
           beloved delay-lines.


11) How you can contact me:
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                       Mail :
                       Carl Lofgren,
                       Arkov. 51,
                       121 55  Johanneshov
                       SWEDEN

                       FidoNet:
                       Carl Lofgren
                       2:201/303 (Irata BBS)

                       InterNet:
                       carl@proxxi.uf.se
                       Carl.Lofgren@stix.pcs.se


   PLEASE NOTE MY NEW ADDRESS. I've moved.

   If you have any  suggestions,  ideas,  thoughts,  or just want a
   chat, drop me a line. I WILL reply to everyone.

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   I'd like to thank  Ronald Andersson for his valuable help,  when
   de-bugging  my way of using  GEM. Michael Lundgren  (the creator
   of NeoCom,  the BEST  ANSI comms-program  so  far)  for the  GEM
   routines,  and finally my cat  -Hobbe-  for the  reason that  he
   always have to walk on my synths and sleep on my Atari.  Carl L.
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