** If you have a HARD DRIVE attached, Quartet will reclaim the memory
used and reboot the machine. You must run Quartet a second time for it to
work **
 
    **  After exiting Quartet hit Return to get to the main menu **

QUARTET	
© 1990 Dan Lennard	

The ability to play high quality sound samples is one 
of the Amiga's greatest assets. QUARTET makes four track
composing with such samples easier than ever before.
Although the staves follow the Treble Clef convention for
pitch, you don't need to be able to read music, since pitches
are shown at the left edge of each stave and Quartet doesn't
use minims and crotchets.

The package comes with 100 high quality samples from
'Celtic Harp' to'Syndrum', but by using the SAMP REDO
function, you can use any raw binary sample such as those
widely available in the Public Domain, or those produced
with samplers such as the A.M.A.S. and MASTERSOUND cartridges.

By using either the Amiga keyboard or a MIDI instrument
,via an interface, you can play the samples polyphonically
over three octaves and record 'live' onto any track, while
Quartet plays back the other tracks (supported in the demo).
The program also fully supports MIDI sync START/STOP signals
and can thus be part of any MIDI set-up.

The numeric keys at the left of the Amiga keyboard each play
a sample; you can directly record a drum sequence onto a
track just by hitting the appropriate sample keys in the
desired rhythm.

You can also compose in the conventional manner by inserting
and deleting notes on the staves with the mouse; for maximum
flexibility, each note has its own volume, there are extensive
Copy/Cut and Paste options, and such facilities as Slides,
Loops, and Selective Key Transpose are all fully supported.

You can manipulate samples in memory by using Quartet's 
Sample Editor, enabling you to cut out sections and define the
start/stop positions and looping points for each of the 16 samples.

QUARTET DEMO INSTUCTIONS

When the disk activity ceases you'll see a file selector showing the files
and drawers on disk. Click on the QUARTET drawer. Click on LOAD SET. Click
on the file DEMOSET. Click on PROCEED. Click on LAOD MUS. Click on the file
DEMOMUSIC or GONZO (Jon Bates' composition). Click on Proceed.

You can then hear the 16 individual samples by
pressing the numeric keys.

Click on the long MUSIC EDITOR icon to go into that part of
Quartet, characterised by four staves (one per track) and an 
option bar along the top of the screen.

Click on the PLAY icon at the top and centre of your new screen
to hear the demonstration music from Quartet. Click again to stop playing.

You can move through the music in the buffer by clicking on the
icons either side of the play icon. Quartet supports 16 samples
in blocks of four. Each of the digit pairs on the staves are
notes, '21' is a note played in sample 1 of block 2. 

With Quartet you can record five seconds of your own. 
Firstly, press the appropriate numeric key to select which
sample you want to record in. Then click on the REC icon next
to the PLAY icon. The top stave will be illuminated in red,
indicating which stave you are recording onto; click on your
prefered stave. Recording starts when you start playing a
melody on the Amiga keyboard. Tap the top four numeric keys
to record a drum sequence.

So after recording on one stave, record onto another by clicking
on a different stave when you start recording. In this way you
can record 4 five second tracks.

Click on the PLAY icon to hear your recording.

Note that all editing facilities have been removed from the
demo version, as have many other facilites, including all MIDI
compatibility and the POLY PLAY mode, which allows you to play
any sample polyphonically over three octaves. In all about 40%
of the program remains.

Other Demo Features:

When you click on the SET icon in the file handler part of
Quartet, the window changes to a list of the current sixteen
samples; return to the disk directory with the DISK icon. 

You can toggle any of Quartet's tracks ON/OFF by clicking with
the right mouse button at the left edge of that track's stave.
ON staves are gold, OFF ones black.

At the left of the staves are two green diamonds which represent
a vertical marker. If these markers are green, then playing
starts from the start of the music buffer. If you move them,
by clicking on the bottom diamond, holding the button down, and
moving the mouse, then the markers turn gold. Play now starts
from the markers.

You can turn the Amiga's internal Low Pass Filter ON/OFF, by
clicking on the LPF icon.

Quartet is available from all good software stockists or directly
from Microdeal:

PO Box 68
St. Austell
Cornwall
PL25 4YB

Telephone: 0726 68020
Fax: 0726 69692