 
                              Drum Blaster V.3.0
                           for the CMS Sound Blaster 
                          (C) by Larry Tipton 1991-2007
    

Drum Blaster turns your Sound Blaster-equipped PC into a professional-sounding
drum pad featuring digitized sound effects.  Drum Blaster also works with the 
tiny built-in speaker on plain old PC's but the sounds won't shake your house
as nearly as much.

Drum Blaster defines forty different digitized sound effects to particular
keys.  Tap out rhythms by pressing the keys.  Drum Blaster is capable of
playing CMF music files in the background while you tap allow using the
digitized samples.  Drum Blaster also comes bundled with a built-in Drum
Traker Player.  Check out the sound quality of these sequences! 


Installation 
============

Drum Blaster requires, at minimum, the following PC configuration:

- 512K RAM
- EGA or better display/card with at least 256K video memory.
- Hard Drive or high density floppy drive.

A Sound Blaster Card is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED but not required.


Installation is a snap. Copy files to an appropriate sub directory on you
hard disk (if you have one) or simply copy the files to diskette (requires
a high density diskette).    

   Type INSTALL.  Press enter.

After the files have decompressed... 
   
   TYPE DB.  Press enter.

Drum Blaster makes every attempt to locate the address of your Sound Blaster. 
If for some strange reason you get no sound from the Sound Blaster or it comes
up in PC Speaker mode try typing:

   DB  XXX Y  where XXX is the Port IO Address and Y is the interrupt number.
 


Modes of Operation
==================

Drum Blaster has four modes of operation:
 
- Drum Mode          (default) 
- Synthesizer Mode
- Drum Traker Mode   (requires a Sound Blaster)
- CMF Music Mode     (requires a Sound Blaster)
   

Drum Mode
=========

This is the default or standard mode of operation.  Press keys to produce
various sound effects.


Synthesizer 
===========

Activated by pressing F3.   A highlight box appears over the first digitized
sample.   Navigate by pressing the arrow keys.  Pressing the ENTER key selects
the sample within the highlight box as the active synthesizer instrument. 
Pressing ESC cancels the request. The forty Drum Blaster key pad keys are
assigned to the highlighted sample.  Pressing the various keys now produce
different pitches of the selected sample.  To return to Drum Mode press F4.  


Drum Traker
===========

Activated by pressing F2.   A file menu with a list of all available Drum
Traker sequences and modules appears.   Navigate by pressing the up and down
arrows.   Press ENTER to select.   Pressing ESC cancels the request. While 
in this mode a TEMPO box appears.  Pressing the up and down arrows keys
changes the tempo of the sequence being played.  Pressing any other key takes
you out of Drum Traker Mode!

***
Look for Drum Traker coming soon (eh, maybe not)!  Drum Traker allows
you to create your own sequences.  Cool.
*** 


CMF Music
=========

Activate by pressing F5.  A file menu with a list of all available CMF
Songs appears.   Navigate by pressing the up and down  arrows.   Press ENTER
to select.   Pressing ESC cancels the request. Pressing F6 stops the song 
being played.

You can play along by pressing the various drum pad keys!



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Legal Stuff

Drum Blaster may not be changed/modified in any way except by the author. 

All warranties are disclaimed, including damage to hardware and/or software
from use of this program.  In no event will I be liable to you for any damages, including lost profits, lost savings or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of your use or inability to use the program, or any other claim by any other party.

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Sound Blaster is a registered trademark of Creative Labs, Inc
Drum Blaster (C) 1991-2007 by Larry Tipton, all rights reserved.


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