What is Notate?
Notate is a music composition/playback package for use with Acorn computers. It will accept input from either the mouse or a MIDI compatible keyboard connected to the computer’s MIDI interface. The software displays information as music notes on a standard 5 line stave, therefore, some knowledge of note names would be advantageous to the user, though not absolutely necessary. Music can be created on up to a maximum of 8 staves, each stave being capable of playback with any one of a large number of sounds supplied on disc. Notate is supplied on 2 discs, the first containing the application itself, some tune files and a ‘Voices’ directory of sounds; disc 2 contains another ‘Voices’ directory of a larger set of sounds. If you are running the software from the discs, you may be prompted at certain times to insert disc 2 for the application to load particular sounds. However, if you intend mounting the software onto a hard drive, a few precautions need to be taken, not the least of which is
