Notes on Music Mentor 1.02

Here are a few last minute notes on Music Mentor that could 
not be included the user's manual.


Using Music Mentor with Recording Session

If you are using Music Mentor with Midisoft Recording 
Session for Windows, make sure you set up Recording 
Session's MIDI interface parameters before switching 
to Session from within Music Mentor. Also, make sure that 
Session's MIDI settings with regard to the choice of MIDI 
driver and the use of the MIDI Mapper are the same as Music 
Mentor's MIDI settings. If you are running Windows 3.1, 
Music Mentor's default MIDI setting is to use the Multimedia 
MIDI Driver. Any time Mentor is using the Multimedia MIDI 
Driver it will also be using the MIDI Mapper. For more 
information on this, see the section in your user's manual 
on setting up Music Mentor for MIDI.


Running on Two Megabyte Machines

If you experience performance or reliability problems using 
Music Mentor on machines with two megabytes of memory, try 
the following things:

Turn off SMARTDRV by taking the line that launches SMARTDRV 
out of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and restarting your computer. 
On two meg machines, we do not recommend using Music Mentor 
when SMARTDRV is on.

Free up as much memory as possible before launching Music 
Mentor. Ideally, only the Program Manager should be open.

If you have an MPU-401-compatible MIDI device, use the 
Midisoft MIDI Driver instead of the Multimedia MIDI Driver 
in Music Mentor's MIDI Setup dialog. The Midisoft MIDI 
Driver is faster and more efficient.


Running at Screen Resolutions Larger Than 640 x 480

Music Mentor was designed for use at 640 x 480. If you don't 
want to run Music Mentor in this resolution, preferring 
instead to run at 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768, you should be 
aware that the size of the text will change, and in some 
cases may be difficult to read because it is so small. Some 
makers of high resolution video cards include larger-than-
normal screen fonts for use in these situations. We have 
found that on some systems, this may cause some of the text 
in Music Mentor to "spill out" over its field boundaries. 
Text is either cut off or overruns another graphic object. 
The problem is caused because you have switched to different 
screen fonts in order to make better use of the increased 
resolutions. You always have the option, of course, of not 
switching to different screen fonts, and in this case, Music 
Mentor should look fine. The only screen font Music Mentor 
uses is Helvetica, so it is only when a new font is 
substituted for Helvetica that this becomes a problem.


Another Font-Related Issue

Users who run Music Mentor in conjunction with on-the-fly 
type scaling software like Adobe Type Manager and Bitstream 
FaceLift may notice that some text looks slightly out of 
place on screen. This happens when the type scaling program 
takes over the "rasterization" (on-screen drawing) of the 
Helvetica screen font. Though we have not come across any 
situations where this is a serious problem that prevents 
use of the program, if it bothers you you can probably 
correct it by altering the sizes of screen fonts that your 
type scaling program will draw and returning the drawing of 
the affected Helvetica fonts back over to Windows itself.