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  • Page 1 PHASOR Advanced Sound Card Owner’s Manual...
  • Page 2 PHASOR Advanced Sound Card...
  • Page 3 Customer Satisfaction The PHASOR Sound Expansion Card comes with a lifetime warranty to you the original purchaser. Limitation on Warranties and Liability Even though ReActiveMicro.com has tested the hardware described in this manual and reviewed its contents, neither ReActiveMicro.com nor its...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Contents Part I Getting Started About This Manual About the Phasor ReActiveMicro.com Technical Support Installing and Testing the Phasor What’s Next... Part II Getting Serious The COMPOSE Music Editor Exploring COMPOSE Entering Notes Entering COMPOSE Keyboard Commands Operating System (ProDOS) Commands...
  • Page 5 Figures Getting Started Part I... Figure 1 Phasor Controls and Output Jacks Figure 2 Phasor Option Switches Getting Serious Part II... Figure 3 COMPOSE Edit Screen Figure 4 Single Key Shortcuts Figure 5 COMPOSE Keyboard Command Table Figure 6 Valid Ranges for Keyboard Commands...

  • Page 6: Getting Started

    About This Manual... This manual was written for users (like us) who want to jump right in and use the Phasor, but don’t like to read lengthy instructions. Everyone should read Part I... Getting Started. It tells you how to install the Phasor in your computer and then how to use the music, speech, and sound effect demonstration programs provided on the Phasor Program disk.

  • Page 7: Reactivemicro.com Technical Support

    Part I... Getting Started ReActiveMicro.com Technical Support If you have a technical question relating to your Phasor card, please contact the dealer from whom you purchased the card. Most dealers are knowledgeable and have the resources to readily answer your question. In the event that the dealer cannot answer your question, ReActiveMicro.com has...

  • Page 8: Installing And Testing The Phasor

    Make backup copies of both sides of your Phasor Program disk! The Phasor Program is on side one; side two contains synthesized music selections. Neither side is copy-protected. Store your original disk in a safe place. The working (backup) copies of your Phasor Program disk must be write enabled. (No write-protect tab.) Here’s what you need to use your Phasor...
  • Page 9 Installation procedure Step 1: Set the switches Locate the option switch block on the Phasor card. See Figure 1. The Phasor is shipped from the factory with all four switches set to the CLOSED position. This is called “Phasor Mode.”...

  • Page 10: S O U N D F E E F C S T S " O U N D B

    (X represents the Phasor’s slot.) Enter Y if the statement is correct. If your Phasor is in another slot, answer N and enter the correct slot number. To enable or disable the graphics option, answer Y or N to the prompt: Graphics during play? The graphics display gives your eyes something to do while your ears are enjoying the music.

  • Page 11: What's Next

    What’s next... This concludes Part I of this manual. It has given you a brief introduction to the Phasor and the Phasor Program disk. Part II... Getting Serious tells you how to create your own music, access the speech synthesizer through BASIC programs, and make your own sound effects.

  • Page 12: Getting Serious

    All that is required to use the COMPOSE editor on an Apple lie, Laser 128, or Franklin ACE 2x00 system is a Phasor correctly installed. If you are using an Apple II Plus, you will need a set of game paddles.
  • Page 13 Part II... Getting Serious Figure 3 COMPOSE Edit Screen Edit Cursor Command Ticks Edit Screen Symbols: Music Score Displays the musical score for the selected voice as it will be played. Edit Cursor Used to select the position of a note or command along the score and the pitch of a note to be entered.
  • Page 14 Part II... Getting Serious Edit Mode Indicators Insert mode active. Notes entered to score will be inserted immediately to the left of the current Edit Cursor position. Tied note mode is active. Notes (and rests) entered to the Edit Staff will be tied. Accidentals are indicated by the appropriate symbol.

  • Page 15: Entering Notes

    Part II... Getting Serious COMPOSE Editor Controls Here is a quick summary of the basic COMPOSE Music Editor controls: Function Command key Scroll the Options Window selections Left and Right caret ( <or>) Keys (upper or lower case)or Game Paddle 0 Move Edit Cursor up or down Up and Down Arrows or Game Paddle 1 Move Edit Cursor left or right...

  • Page 16: Entering Compose Keyboard Commands

    Getting Serious Part lll. Inserting a forgotten note or command is done by turning on the Insert Mode. The Insert Mode is toggled (turned on or off) by selecting INS from the Options Window. In the normal mode, notes entered from the Edit Staff replace the command or note at the current Edit Cursor position. In the Insert Mode, notes entered from the Edit Staff are inserted one position before the note or command at the current Edit Cursor position.
  • Page 17 Figure 6. This information is also provided on the Phasor Program disk in a text file which can be printed using a ProDOS-based word processor program (e.g. AppleWorks or AppleWriter// 2.0).

  • Page 18: Operating System (Prodos) Commands

    Sets or displays the current ProDOS prefix. PRE(fix)_(prefix)<cr> Depending on the optional argument, this command can be used to set or display the current ProDOS prefix only for Phasor music files. The normal (default) music file prefix is the same as the COMPOSE program prefix. This command affects only the music file prefix;...

  • Page 19: Compose Editing Commands

    LOAD Load a Phasor music file from a ProDOS device (disk). LOA(d){filename, pathname, or =}<cr> Loads the file specified by the filename or ProDOS pathname into the COMPOSE music editor. If only a filename is entered (no beginning slash), the file is loaded from the currently-prefixed directory.
  • Page 20 Part II... Getting Serious Figure 7 New File Command Defaults Voice Measure C (no flats or sharps) Time Quarter note length Transpose Attack 8192 VoIu me 55000 Decay Sustain Release 65500 Set the present key signature of the Music Score. KEY (nF or nS)<cr>...
  • Page 21 Part II...Getting Serious beats per measure (the top number in the time signature), and the second number determines which note gets one beat. As shown in Measure 0 of a new Music Score, the default time signature is 4/4. This indicates that there are four beats per measure (the top number) and a quarter note (the bottom number) gets one beat.
  • Page 22 The POSition command allows you to specify which voices are to be played by channel A and which are to be played by channel B. The Phasor uses four integrated circuit devices (chips) to generate the twelve possible musical voices. Each of these chips is capable of synthesizing three voices, one of which can be a percussive voice.
  • Page 23 Part ll...Getting Serious DELETE Delete commands or notes. DEL(ete)_{1 . .65535)<cr> This command is used to delete a string of commands, notes, or rests from the current voice. The number of entries deleted is determined by the value of the command argument. The specified number of entries will be deleted, starting at the current Edit Cursor position, until the end of the voice or subroutine.

  • Page 24: Advanced Editing Commands

    Part II... Getting Serious CALL Invoke (Call) a music file subroutine. CAL(l)_{1 ... 1 27)<cr> When a CALL command is encountered as a music file is being played, the program branches to the subroutine specified in the command argument, plays through the subroutine, and returns to the note or command in that particular voice.
  • Page 25 The following commands affect the note envelope, or loudness contour, of notes played by the Phasor. These commands are graphically represented in Figure 9. The music files on side two of the Phasor program disk provide many examples of various Note Envelope combinations.
  • Page 26 Getting Serious Part II... Figure 9 Note Envelope Command Combinations...
  • Page 27 MUSS. The BASIC.SYSTEM file on the Phasor program disk has been modified to display the Phasor music files as a file type of MUSS. If the file directory is displayed under an unmodified BASIC.SYSTEM file, the file type will appear as $F5.

  • Page 28: Phasor Speech Programs

    ProDrive are lost. For this reason, storing data files in a ProDrive is not recommended. Phasor Speech Programs This section tells you how to use the Text-to-Speech capability of the Phasor from within your own Applesoft BASIC programs. You don’t have to be an advanced programmer, but you should at least have some experience in Applesoft BASIC programming.

  • Page 29: Editing Tts Parameters

    Editing TTS Speech Parameters The TTS program is initially configured for a Phasor installed in slot 4. If your Phasor is not in slot 4 and the TTS program is to be run from a different disk, the US program must first be reconfigured.
  • Page 30 Phasors synthesized music.) Sound output from chips 1 and 3 goes to Phasor speaker channel B, chips 2 and 4 to speaker channel A. Each of the four sound chips is capable of producing three individual voices, designated subchannels A, B, and C.
  • Page 31 The other four repeat in a pattern. For voices with the envelope option ON, the different sound shapes are represented in the envelope column of the Phasor Sound editor screen by the symbols shown in Figure 12.
  • Page 32 SAVE, LOAD, and CATALOG. The ESC key can be used to cancel an unentered command or exit the Sound Builder. Several sample sound effects files are provided on the Phasor Program disk. The files, SOUND.1, SOUND.2, SOUND.3, SOUND.4, and SURF demonstrate the effects of different sound envelope...

  • Page 33: Calling Sounds From Applesoft Basic

    BINSOUNDS, loaded in line 20, automatically loads at $9538. Line 30 loads the sound effects file, ‘SURF,” at $9500, just below the BINSOUNDS program. In this example, the Phasor is installed in slot 2, as indicated in line 40. Line 50 uses the CH variable to set up a FOR-NEXT loop to assign a synthesizer chip number for lines 60 and 70.
  • Page 34 Getting Serious Part II... Three CALL routines are contained in BIN.SOUNDS. CALL 38203 Reset all four chips (silence). CALL 38206 Update a particular register in the chip specified in $9539. CALL 38209 Send all 14 bytes to registers of the chip specified in $9539. The sound synthesizer chip registers are numbered from 0 to 13, as follows: PAL (low byte of pitch for voice A) PAH (high byte of pitch for voice A)
  • Page 35 Phasor software compatibility list Software title Company Address Phone Airsim -3 Mind Systems Northampton, MA 413/586-6463 Apple Cider Spider Sierra On-Line Coarse Gold, CA 209/683-6858 Auto Gyro Bandinelli Software Box 5067 New Orleans, LA 504/856-4825 Bouncing Kamungas Penguin Software Geneva, IL...
  • Page 36 The Phasor is copyright of AE Applied Engineering.
  • Page 38 www.reactivemicro.com...

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