Creative Keytar Readme File
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This file contains information to supplement the help file.
Please read all the sections before you proceed with the installation.

This file contains the following sections:

        1.  Minimum System Requirements
        2.  Installation
        3.  Uninstallation
        4.  Plucking and Strumming Style Naming Convention
        5.  Sample Palettes

1.  MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    Windows 95 with Wavetable sound cards such as 
    Sound Blaster 32, AWE32, AWE64 or AWE64 Gold.


2.  INSTALLATION

    The full installation option requires about 3 MBytes of hard disk
    space for program files and an additional 2 MBytes for working space. 
    You might need more if your drive is in compressed form.


3.  UNINSTALLATION

    Before uninstalling the software package, ensure that Creative
    Keytar is closed.


4.  PLUCKING AND STRUMMING STYLE NAMING CONVENTION

    Auto-plucking and auto-strumming pattern presets have
    prefixes, which indicate these playing styles:

	FK_		: Folk
	PP_		: Pop
	RB_		: Ryhthm and Blues
	JZ_		: Jazz
	RR_		: Rock and Roll
	BL_		: Ballad

5.  SAMPLE PALETTES

    The following sample chord palettes are provide for you to
    experiment :

    BDAY.PLT    	: Standard "Happy Birthday"
    DESAFIND.PLT	: A Bossa Nova palette. Think of "Antonio CJ"
    MOTELKLF.PLT	: A folk rock palette. This chord was recently used in a "revival"
    
    STD_A.PLT --
    STD_C.PLT    \
    STD_D.PLT     +     : Standard chord palettes
    STD_E.PLT    /
    STD_G.PLT --
