#SuperJam! Custommer
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My name is Marcel Jacques from Beauport Province of Quebec Canada I have
sent my SuperJam! card so I would like to verify with you about the
reception of this card . I am very interested of your Meister (Patch
librarian ). Can you send me informations on that product please . Have you
heard of Beta Unlimited yet ? How about being able to use Bars&Pipes on a
larger workbench screen ? Thank you . Marcel Jacques
Marcel,
Melissa from Blue Ribbon will probably respond after she reads your
message. Just to let you know, the Universal Patch Librarian is called The
PatchMeister. I am currently one of the beta testers. The product should be
released shortly. Also, TriplePlay Plus will be released by Blue Ribbon in
the near future. It's a MIDI interface, with three SEPARATELY ADDRESSABLE
MIDI Outs. That means you can have 48 MIDI channels.
Blue Ribbon has been in touch with Beta Unlimited for over one year. They
planned to make B&P Pro compatible with Beta's 16-bit sound board. However,
that board has never materialized. If and when it does, then Blue Ribbon
will decide their course of action.
I hope this helps.
Dom Fontana
Thanks , I knew for Triple play but how does compare Patcmeister with the
ones on the Market right now .
Will we be able to save the patchs with our songs in Bars&Pipes . Marcel
Jacques
Marcel,
The only other two programs that I am aware of are MIDI Quest and X-OR.
I own Midi Quest, but have only read the reviews for X-OR. Therefore, my
opinion is based on hands-on use of 2 out of the 3 products.
As a Universal patch librarian, the PatchMeister wins hands-down over the
other two products. It has a beautiful interface with on-line help. It is
extremely intuitive to use, is powerful, versatile, and does the job. It
comes with a number of drivers, with more planned for the future. It also
includes a Driver Creator that allows you to create your own MIDI drivers
for whatever MIDI gear you own.
The PatchMeister can be used as a stand-alone program with any Amiga
sequencer or can be used as an accessory with B&P Pro. Then, you could save
all your patches with your songs in B&P Pro. I like the program very much.
Just remember, that the PatchMeister is not a Universal Editor. As a
Universal Librarian, I consider it the best on the Amiga market today.
Dom Fontana
Whoa! I'll tell the programmer you said that, Dom.
Jacques,
Please EMAIL me your address so that I can send the information you
requested.
Your SuperJAM! registration card is on file and in fact, you have been send
version 1.0c free of charge.
The PatchMeister is currently in beta testing and Triple Play Plus is
undergoing FCC approval.
We are familiar with Beta Unlimited, however, we have seen no evidence of
their product's existence.
Thanks for your questions!
Melissa
Here is my complete adress .
Marcel Jacques (Marcel is my first name ) 632 d'Anglebert Beauport , Quebec
, Canada . G1B 3L4
Knowing that SuperJam! open its own window , I was wondering why can the
programmer give us the possibility to have a working window larger than the
screen to be able to see and use more than a few window .??? Marcel Jacques
Dear *Marcel*!!
(Sorry about the name confusion.)
You can use the Zoom In or Zoom Out buttons available in most SuperJAM!
windows to view a window in great detail.
Melissa
Melissa:
HELLLLLLP!
I just bought SuperJAM!, installed it on my Amiga, and can't get it to run.
It's crash city every time I double click on the icon. Guru mediation
error #0000000B.00208708.
Just in case it was fighting with something else on the system, I booted
from a stock AmigaDOS1.3 floppy, and — no go!
Here's my system: Amiga 2000. Early model CBM 68020 accelerator with 2
megs 32 bit ram, MMU, FPU. Early CBM 2 meg 16 bit ram card. 512K chip
ram. Early GVP hardcard with 40 meg Quatum. MIDI Gold interface.
Practical Peripherals 2400 baud modem. Yamaha TX81Z, Yamaha PSS-480.
This sounds like a great program. I'd like to USE it!
PS: Your docs say not to mess with the write protection on the disks. All
three of the disks were already set for write protect out of their little
plastic bag. So, when I first installed it, and it asked for the serial
number, I gave it my name and number, and clicked on OK. When the system
said "SuperJAM! is write protected", I told it to ignore. When I was
finished with the installation onto hard disk, it wouldn't run, giving me a
message that "You must use the install program before using SuperJAM!".
So, I deleted everything, undid the write protection on the program disk,
and installed again. Now I don't get that message, just instant system
crash.
?|^] Ray Lewis
Good grief! This is a new one. I'll check with Technical Support and get
back with you today.
Melissa
Dear Ray,
Could you please tell me what version of SuperJAM! you have? Have you sent
in your registration card?
If you have version 1.0a or 1.0b, you'll will be receiving version 1.0c
free of charge.
I _have_ version 1.0c, purchased last Saturday. So, I haven't sent in the
card yet.
Let me recap. I read the docs. They said "Don't mess with write protect,
it will interfere with your installation". However, they didn't say _how_
the write protect should be set — i.e. should it be protected, or
unprotected. All my disks were write disabled (protected).
Since I have a hard drive, I clicked on the hard drive install program. It
took a long time "searching" for my srial number. Then a requestor came up
asking for my name and serial number. I entered both, and clicked on "OK".
A system requestor came up saying my SuperJAM disk was write protected.
Follwing what I thought were the instructions in the manual, I told the
computer to go ahead anyway.
It proceeded to install the program on my hard disk. When I tried to run
the program, a message came up that said I "had to install SuperJAM". I
thought I had.
So, I went back to the program disk, and ran hard drive install again. This
time, when the requestor came up, I unprotected the disk, inserted it, and
said "try again". It wrote to the program disk, and then asked where I
wanted SuperJAM installed (which, of course, had already been done, I
thought). I told it, and it told me that I didn't have enough disk space
(apparently, it wouldn't write over the files it had put there before). So
(and I think this is where I messed up), I canceled the install, and then
erased the SuperJAM drawer that had been put on my dh0:.
I reran the hard drive install, and it couldn't find the serial number
_again_. So I entered my name and serial number _again_, and it wrote to
the disk _again_. It then installed all the files.
Now, when I try to run the program, I get instant guru (somewhat different
numbers each time. Last time it was 0000000B.00290BF8).
Same thing happens when I try to run from the program disk (no "you have to
install it" message, just crash).
One additional piece of info: you have a file list on the program disk
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that says SuperJAM is 389,128 bytes long. The file on both my hard drive
_and_ my program disk is 389,132 bytes long.
Is there something I can try here, or should I send my disks in _with_ my
registration card?
?|^] Ray Lewis
Dear Ray,
We'll be happy to send you an new Program Disk. This should solve your
problem. This time, install it without write-protection. (I've checked
with our production coordinator about verifying that the write-protect tabs
are not going out enabled.
Please send in your registration card immediately and EMail me your
address.
Thanks!
Melissa
I'll email you my name, address and serial #! BTW — my disks were in a
sealed plastic envelope, and werw _all_ set for protection. I'm sure you
aren't going to be reprinting the manuarl soon (actually, I guess I hope
you do reprint it soon, 'cause that will mean you sold out). You might
insert a flyer saying "BE SURE YOUR PROGRAM DISK IS WRITE ENABLED WHEN YOU
INSTALL SuperJAM".
Thanks for the quick response. I can't wait the try the program — I've
read the manual cover to cover at this point!
?|^] Ray Lewis
I've informed our production manager about the write protect issue.
Thanks for letting us know about it.
Actually, we will be doing new manuals very soon, as we've surpassed our
yearly sales expectation THIS MONTH! (And SuperJAM!'s ony been around for
two and a half months)
Melissa
That's great to hear! My native serial port has been out for two years
(never wanted to take my machine in to get it fixed — couldn't be without
my Amiga, y'know), so I have been using an ASDG dual serial board (can do
that without giving up the machine!)
Unfortunately, the ASDG board won't do midi. I recently moved from NYC to
Washington, DC, so, before I set back up, I had the serial port fixed, and
now I can do midi again! I've seen so much postive comment on your
software, I couldn't wait to try some. If SuperJAM is as good as it seems
to be, in a few months, I'll probably become a Bars 'N Pipes Pro user, as
well!
?|^] Ray Lewis
Hi!
I just bought Sjam yesterday and am still going through the manual, but
what I've seen up to now looks just great. I have just one little question:
A lot of music software disables the Amiga's internal filter to obtain
better sound quality. Is there a special reason Sjam doesn't do that? I
don't have MIDI equipment so i'll have to make do with turbosounds.
Greetings
Max from Switzerland
TurboSounds operate differently than standard IFF samples. Whereas IFF
samples contain one sample for each octave and then rely on the Amiga to
transpose from pitch to pitch, TurboSound Intruments contain a separate
sample for each pitch. This way, we can use the Amiga's resources to merge
several samples together and send them down one of the Amiga's sound
channels simultaneously.
Because TurboSounds need as much processor speed as possible to achieve
more than the four typical sounds at once, we had to give up some sounds
quality on 6800 processor machines.
We are working on a low cost hardware solution that would help out with
this fidelity issue.
Melissa
Melissa,
A cheap hardware solution would be great! I do get quite good results, when
I generate turbosamples with medium sampling rate, though.
But I'll have to get a turbo-card anyway sometime, ray tracing with a stock
68000 really takes a lot of time and nerves, but those fast cards cost big
money as you surely know.
By the way should I (I'm from Switzerland) send my registration card in
drectly to Blue Ribbon or to the Swiss Distributor?
Greetings
Max
We would appreciate it if you would send your registration card to us,
however, sending a copy to the Swiss districutor would be greatly
appreciated on his part.
Melissa