DirectMusic Producer:

         DirectX6.1 Release

DirectMusic is the newest DirectX technology.  Designed to provide a
complete music solution to web site designers and title developers,
DirectMusic provides the deepest and broadest music technology in existence
today on any platform. By providing a framework for musical interactivity,
DirectMusic lets you build musical intelligence into multimedia titles for
Windows.

DirectMusic introduces technologies and file formats that have previously
not been available. To allow composers to use the interactive and variable
resources of DirectMusic along with the consistent sound performance of DLS,
an authoring tool is included in this SDK.  This authoring tool is
DirectMusic Producer.

Producer features a framework that is media agnostic. Individual DirectMusic
file objects, such as the styles, chordmaps, templates, and DLS files, are
supported by integrated editor modules that know how to communicate with
each other and work in synchrony with real time interactive editing on top
of the DirectMusic engine.

DirectMusic Producer consists of the following elements:
a. Framework: the environment which hosts all authoring components;
b. The Conductor component: acts as the liaison between authoring components
   and the DirectMusic engine;
c. Style Designer component: provides for creation of interactive music
   files;
d. Chordmap Designer component: chords and scales for interactive scenarios;
e. Band Editor component: assigning instrument settings (patch changes)
   including DLS;
f. Segment Designer component: allows for opening ended creation of
   different track types to be integrated into a musical phrases.  MIDI
   files and Styles can be imported into Segments and used together or
   independently.
h. DLS Designer component: for creation of Downloadable Sample soundsets.

It is recommended that you uninstall any previous Beta versions of
DirectMusic Producer if there are any present on your machine
(Start/Settings/Control Panel/Add Remove Programs). It's recommended that
you close Producer before attempting to uninstall.

Please make sure that you also install the DirectX6.1 version of
DirectMusic, as Producer functionality is built entirely on top of
DirectMusic (order of installation is not important).

DirectMusic Producer also requires IE4.0 (or higher).  You can uninstall IE
after installing, as there are some system files that are required for
Producer.  

· As some dialogs do not display properly with Japanese Windows, we have
  created a Japanese Windows-enabled version of Producer (dmusprod.jpn) that
  can be found in the essentls directory of the SDK.

For more detailed and up-to-date information on DirectMusic Producer, please
read dmusprod.txt after installing DirectMusic Producer.
