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Igor Engraver Manual

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CHAPTER 1<br />

Installation and Setup<br />

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• Set Courtesy accidentals to None. This is done in the Accidentals pane in the Template/Piece<br />

settings window.<br />

• If you use Windows NT/2000/XP, you can add a separate hard drive – not just a partition<br />

of your current hard drive – for the Windows swap files (refer to Windows documentation<br />

for details). There will be a noticable difference in speed in your<br />

Windows operations, and this benefits the performance of <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> as well. A<br />

less sophisticated yet useful method is to partition the hard drive and to put <strong>Igor</strong><br />

<strong>Engraver</strong> and the <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> files there.<br />

• Free up your resources! <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> runs better if at at startup the computer<br />

resources are as high as possible. Refer to the Widows documentation for deatils,<br />

and keep in mind that <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> runs best if you reboot before running<br />

it.<br />

• Add more RAM to your computer – it’s generally the best investment you can<br />

do when it comes to computer speed.<br />

1.5 System Requirements (Macintosh)<br />

You can run the Macintosh version of <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> on any PowerPC running<br />

MacOS 8.5 with at least 32 MB of free RAM, but a G3 or G4 with 64 MB of<br />

RAM or more is recommended. If you have the QuickTime synthesiser installed<br />

you do not need a MIDI device to use <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong>. Please remember though<br />

that the quality of <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong>’s unique playback feature depends greatly on<br />

the quality of the synthesiser you are using.<br />

1.6 The Open Music System (Macintosh)<br />

On the Macintosh platform (only), <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> uses Open Music System<br />

(OMS) to manage all its MIDI traffic. OMS takes care of managing all MIDI<br />

event reading and writing, and allows synthesisers to be referenced by name and<br />

make, instead of anonymous port and channel numbers.<br />

OMS is a freeware utility written by Opcode, Inc. If you do not have OMS<br />

installed on your computer already, you can download it from www.opcode.com.<br />

<strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> can run without OMS, but if it is not installed, music playback<br />

will not be possible.

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