
jacinth 1.05 upgrade
8.12.2002
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This is an update to the original jacinth, modified to use Oskari
Tammelin's XDSP Beta 2 library.

This version should be perfectly compatible with original jacinth,
but songs and presets that use the new features are NOT compatible
with OLD jacinth!


Installing this update:
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FIRST DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL THE ORIGINAL JACINTH PACKAGE - THIS IS ONLY
AN UPGRADE!

It's also helpful if you make sure that original jacinth works on your
computer before trying to install this update. Make sure you READ
the documentation, ESPECIALLY THE README FILES that come with the
original ZIP! You have been warned!

Ok, so you have jacinth up and running. Then just close buzz and
overwrite the old "gear\generators\ld jacinth.dll" with the one in
this zip. Be sure to check you got it right by looking at the about box:
load up jacinth in your song, right click on it and select "About..." in
the popup menu. The version should be 1.05.


Changes to original jacinth:
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 * LFOs and envelopes can now affect LFO speed
 * Accent can be linked to Volume
 * Pitchbend hack: parameter value 127 means 128 ("63" is now "64"),
   allowing full range of pitchin'.

About that strange accent parameter:
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Accent values 0..128 (0x00..0x80 hex) work just as they did before,
but values in range 129..228 (0x81 to 0xE4 hex) cause accent to be linked
to volume at a percentage, 1%..100%, according to the parameter value.

That is:
Accent = 120 -> accent is set to 120, just like before.
Accent = 180 = 128 + 58 -> accent is set to 58% of volume!

If you're playing with midi and you want to use the new accent % feature,
you have to set it for every track separately before playing notes!

This feature is not supported through the GUI.

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Thanks to Vectrex for the ideas for these new features and mva and
HamsterAlliance for testing the XDSP version!

 - ld0d
