Thank you for purchasing Bars&Pipes Professional. In the pages to come, you will understand why you've made an important choice. With Bars&Pipes Professional, you're truly bound only by the limits of your own creativity. We encourage you to read this manual, since it contains thorough explanations of Bars&Pipes Professional's wide array of features. Bars&Pipes Professional is a high-end MIDI sequencing and composition package. In order to use it, you must have a MIDI sound module or keyboard connected to your Amiga via a MIDI interface.
NOTE-> If you would like to use the Amiga's Internal sounds instead of MIDI, we offer the Internal Sounds Kit, available at your local dealer, mail order, and directly from Blue Ribbon. In addition to external MIDI instruments, Bars&Pipes Professional integrates beautifully with the One-Stop Music Shop soundcard, also from Blue Ribbon. The One-Stop Music Shop provides internal 16-bit musical instruments for your Amiga 2000, 3000, or 4000.
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Everyone at The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks is dedicated to producing the highest quality software and software support in the industry. We have invested thousands of hours of research and development in our products. Much of that time is spent in listening to and learning from people like you. Blue Ribbon products are designed to be affordable, ongoing investments that are improved and expanded over time. We've provided expansion through program updates and add-on software, such as the Creativity Kit and the Pro Studio Kit. If you are a C programmer, with the Rules For Tools add-on, you can even create your own enhancements to Bars&Pipes Professional!
For your convenience, we do not copy protect our products. We see no reason to impose such irritating complexities on our customers. We do ask, however, that you refrain from giving out copies of any of our programs.
If, out of excitement and a desire to share a discovery with a friend, you are tempted to do so, please take a moment to consider the vast amounts of energy, talent, time, money and other limited resources involved in creating a program like Bars&Pipes Professional. We ask that you exercise restraint, common sense and courtesy. Remember that we do have demos of our products available. Treat us and our products as you would want us to treat you if our roles were reversed.
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