                                                   September 29th, 1997

EARX midi-2-light system version 0.2 prerelease.

SORT OF PROGRAM: Program that can be used to trigger bitmap display by
                 sending midi-signals to the computer.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
                 ATARI FALCON030, RGB-monitor or TV, MIDI connection
                 with keyboards or sequencer.


                          !!PUBLIC DOMAIN!!
       ~ please spread this program to as many people as you know ~


HOW TO USE:

Simply start the program and take a look at the interface. As you can see
it is all mouse-controlled. You have a small menu in the top of the screen
which works a bit like the one in APEX-media. Clicking on an icon on the
bar accesses a menu on the side of the screen with more icons. Only one
of them is used at the moment and that is the EXIT option.
 Ofcourse you don't want to exit (I hope :)) so simply look at the square
in the top-right-corner of the screen. This is the midi-scope. It measures
the amount of midi-data flowing to your Falcon via the midi-in port. When
no data flows in, it is black. Otherwise it changes it's color to green/
orange/red depending on how much packets are coming in.
 On the bottom of the screen is a big bar with loading and trashing icons.
Simply select the loading option to load a picture in the buffer to use.
This picture will be used for plotting to the screen when a note is
pressed on midi-channel 1. At the moment only TGA is supported and the
picture cannot be more than 384*240 big!!!! Types like 24/16-bit
compressed and uncompressed are supported.
 Once the TGA is loaded you will see a thumbnail of it appear in the
bottom-right-corner. Ok, now simply press the space-bar to access real-
time-mode. Once a NOTE ON COMMAND is detected on MIDI CHANNEL ONE the
picture is displayed on screen.
 That's about it for the basics. In this simple version you can load in
16 pictures. Each one represents a midi channel. You can also trash the
current picture.

FUTURE:

 Alas, there aren't more funtions at the moment. I already have a new
version with an improved interface and a couple of touches. An FLI-
loading-option is in the making. Lots of other things are planned...
 I work together with a person who has done loads of midi- and visual-
presentations on Atari and I'm planning to give a demonstration of EARX
in the near future.

CONTACTS:

If you have any interest in this project whatsoever, be it commercially
or simply to suggest bugfixes or new features, please contact me.

Snailmail: Pieter van der Meer
           Bereklauw 1
           4102 KZ Culemborg
           Holland
E-mail:    1028587@ibk.fnt.hvu.nl

Enjoy!!