Noter v. 1.1 for PalmPilot(tm) connected organizer
The professional music editor for Palm

Contents
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	1. About Noter
	2. Key features
	3. Registration Information
	4. History
	5. Legal Stuff and Distribution 
	6. How to contact us


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1. About Noter
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Noter is a program for musicians and learners based on the Palm Computing(r) Platform. It provides a highly-efficient and professional musical editor which allows you to note down music wherever you might be.

Noter is distributed under the shareware system. 
This means that you can try out the program for free. 
Once you have tested it, you must register it or delete it.

In the unregistered version of Noter you can not either save songs or use the metronome.
When you register you'll get a serial number based upon your HotSync user name which will allow you to enjoy Noter at it's full capacity. 

2. Key features
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Noter is a complete musical editor that allows you:

- to work on the grand staff (Treble clef and Bass clef) running more than 4 Octaves
- to use all durations (including dotted ones), rests and accidentals (sharp, flat and natural) as key signature or before the notes
- to use ties and triplets
- to choose and set the key of the song beetwen each of the twelve tones
- to transpose the song
- to play and listen to your work following the score during play
- to adjust playback tempo between 40 and 240 beats/min
- to use a full featured digital metronome
- to easily edit your song using cut, copy, paste and undo over dragged selections
- to save your songs, choosing and editing categories for each one in the Noter's database.
- to beam songs and categories
- to export songs as system alarms

3. Registration Information
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Noter is shareware and costs $28.95 to register.
Information regarding payment is at the following url:
http://www.palmpointer.com/sw/

Registration gives you free access to future release versions 1.x and 2.x, which presumably will include the following features:

- Pc Desktop Conduit (with midi file export)
- Multivoicing
- Complete bug fixing

The following features, and any other not mentioned here, might be subjected to a small upgrade fee, as they would lead to a different type of product:

- Midi HW driver

**IMPORTANT**
During registration process, you must provide us with your HotSync user name. The serial number is **strongly** based upon the name you provide: be sure to send the **exact** name (including spaces before of after the name, special characters, capital letters and so on). After registration, be sure to:
- write down a backup copy of your pair user name/serial number for future use
- don't change your user name, or you will have to re-register (and pay again) to continue to use Noter
In no case shall more than 01 (one) serial number be released for each payment (for each user name provided).

4. History
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20/12/99 - Noter 1.1
	New Features:
	- Export song into system midi alarm database
	- Zooming
	- Various minor modifications to user interface
	- Various minor bug fixes

04/11/99 - Noter 1.0
	Added features:
	- digital metronome
	- transposition tool
	- transposition management in case of key changes
	- playback loop
	- beaming
	- sound off button in Playback Prefs Dialog Box

01/09/99 - Noter 0.9b6
	First public release of Noter

5. Legal Stuff and Distribution
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Noter is shareware. You are responsable for what you do with Noter and for the consequences of anything that happens as a result of your use, be it damage, loss of data on any computer system or any other outcome.

Noter is provided ''as is'' and any express or implied warranties are disclaimed. In no event shall any individual or any other party be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits, or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of Noter, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.

Limitations on Reverse Engineering, Decompilation and Disassembly are the following: You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble Noter.
Noter is licensed as a single product. Its component parts may not be separated for use on more than one PalmPilot(tm) connected organizer.
You may not rent or lease Noter and you may not sell the evaluation version nor the registered version Noter.
Without prejudice to any other rights, Storm Com. & Tecn. may terminate this agreement if you fail to comply with it's terms and conditions. In such event, you must destroy all copies of Noter and all of its component parts.

Registration gives you the right to use the program exclusively on PalmPilot(tm) connected organizer identified during registration process. All ownership and Copyright of Noter belongs to Storm Com. & Tecn. 
Each registered version is licensed to use in only one machine.You may distribute unregistered copies of Noter via Internet and other media, but not for profit (without prior permission).

The full and registered version of Noter or the registration serial number, given at the time of purchase, may not be sold or given to others. The licence to use Noter is not transferable.

No money may be charged for the program or for any accompanying files, other than the usual downloading time fees charged by commercial BBS's and online services.

Storm Com. & Tecn. would strongly appreciate prior notification if Noter is to be published or printed on, for example floppy, or CD-ROM or any other medium.


6. How to contact us
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Please feel free to contact us for further information

Storm Comunicazione & Tecnologia
Via B. De Rolandi 1
20156 Milano
Italy
Tel. ++39.2.330.074.68
Fax. ++39.2.392.154.84

http://www.storm.it
info@storm.it


