Electric Score Reader User Manual Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Table Of Contents Copyright 3 Warranty 4 Introduc>on 5 Features
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Specica3ons 6 Startup, Shutdown, and SeBng 8 Startup and Shutdown 8 Calibra3on 8 WiFi 10 Language 12 e-Scores 13 Using e-Scores 13 Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn MusicXML Func3ons 15 PDF/Image Func3ons 17 MusicXML In Details 19 Edi3ng 19 Playing 23 PDF/Image In Details 24 Annota3ons 24 Connec>ng Accompanists 26 Connec3ng 2 Accompanists 27 Virtual Classroom 27 Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Copyright This manual belongs to Maxcable
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Gennex Technology Limited. Without the permission of the Company, no person can reproduce, copy or translate it into another language. Since the so@ware can be updated manually by users, so we do not guarantee the funcBons described in this manual always consist with your machine, please visit www.gennex.com.cn to check the latest update. Maxcable
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Gennex reserves the right for any modicaBon to this manual, and Maxcable
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Gennex will not inform any person for the changes acBvely. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Warranty Before starBng to use Accompanist, please read this manual carefully and make sure you understand the contents. If you have quesBons, please contact with your local distributer, or you contact with us directly. Please also make sure you follow the manual instrucBons to use Accompanist, that will help to avoid the unnecessary data lose or hardware damage. For hardware and data protecBon, please do not use Accompanist under the following situaBons or environments:
Avoid to use Accompanist under high temperature and low temperature environment.. Avoid to let Accompanist exposed under high strength sunlight too long. Avoid to use Accompanist under high humidity environment. Avoid to use Accompanist under high electromagneBc elds. Dont open the plasBc case arbitrarily, that probably will damage Accompanist and make you lose the warranty. Dont use any chemical cleaner to clean Accompanist, just use dry cloth or coQon-like materials. Moreover, please back up your valuable data in the SD Card periodically, in any cases if you lose your data, we are unable to restore your data. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Introduc>on Accompanist electric score reader is designed for those musicians, players and students who are suered by carrying tons of heavy tradiBonal paper scores. You can put scores into SD card by digital formats, then manage and read your scores by Accompanist. Depends on the SD card volume size, you can carry hundreds and even thousands of scores, avoiding the pains that you have ever felt with the tradiBonal paper scores. Through the careful UI design, you can organize your digital scores by score names, by music styles, by composers, or by compilaBons, then you can just nd your scores in seconds by these selecBon opBons. Accompanist also supports annotaBons, this funcBon helps you to put the annotaBons, that help you to play well, on anyplace you want. Accompanist supports WiFi, with the basic built-in browser, you can navigate any website you want, and then download the specied digital score les into your SD card directly. Based on the WiFi funcBon, several Accompanist can join a virtual group
(classroom) together, a master Accompanist then can control the score navigaBon of the slave Accompanist, this funcBon is parBcularly useful for class teaching. The Accompanist so@ware is easily to be upgraded, any Bme you nd a Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn new release from the website or from your distributer, we can just upgrade the system smoothly and easily. Features
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Specica>ons CPU:
OMAP3530
(ARM) 600MHz Memory:
256MB Flash ROM:
256MB MusicXML digital score format Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn PNG/JPG/GIF/BMP image formats Stereo Audio Out Microphone In USB A USB Mini B 802.11b/g/n WiFi Dimension:
28mm(L) x 231mm(W) x 344mm(H) Weight:
1.56Kg Foot Pedal
(OpBonal) Stand
(OpBonal) Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Startup, Shutdown, and SeBng Startup and Shutdown Clicking the power buQon on the boQom of the panel to power on Accompanist, a@er seconds of iniBalizaBon, you will see the home screen, now Accompanist is ready for you. To power o Accompanist, just Clicking the power icon at the right-
boQom, and you will see a conrmaBon dialog, then you can decide to power o or go back to the system. Clicking the physical power buQon on the front panel for 5 seconds, you can also get the power o conrmaBon dialog. Calibra>on In the rst Bme to use Accompanist, please calibrate the touch panel to adjust the precision. The steps are:
1. A@er Clicking the power buQon, and when you see the Loading, Clicking the power buQon again to open the calibraBon funcBon. 2. There are 2 steps calibraBon. Step 1 is a 5-points calibraBon, you can roughly calibrate the screen in this step. Step 2 is a 20-points Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Home Screen Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn calibraBon, it allows you to calibrate with more data in 4 secBons of the screen. You can decide to use only step 1 or both step 1 and step 2, and please just follow the instrucBons showed in the screens, the enBre calibraBon is preQy easy. 3. In most of the Bme, you only need to do the calibraBon for just once, the calibraBon data will be saved even powering o. If you consider the touch panel is not in its precise posiBon, you may calibrate the touch panel again. WiFi Accompanist has built-in 802.11 wireless network funcBon. To access wireless network, you need to do the following sekng:
1. Clicking sekng buQon
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) in the home screen, then in the dialog box, Clicking
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dialog.
) buQon to open the wireless network sekng 2. System will scan the available access points and display them as list. You can choose one access point, and then Clicking the connect buQon to connect to the wireless network. 3. If you successfully connect to the wireless network, Accompanist will remember it and reconnect to that network when you power on Accompanist nest Bme. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn WiFi Se-ng Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Language Currently, Accompanist supports English, TradiBonal Chinese, and Simplied Chinese. You can choose which language to be used:
1. Clicking sekng buQon in the home screen, the in the dialog box, Clicking
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) buQon to get into language sekng. 2. Choose the language you want. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn e-Scores When you want to read e-scores, Clicking
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screen, then Accompanist will lead you to the score funcBon.
) buQon on the home There are 4 views that you can use to select the scores you want:
1. by score names, 2. by composers, 3. by styles, 4. by compilaBons. You can consider these 4 views as a score classicaBon that help you easily to nd and open the score. Please note that you must use an applicaBon called ScoreMaker
(in the CD) to manage these 4 views. Using e-Scores There are 2 major score formats:
1, MusicXML format, 2. PDF/Image format. You can disBnguish them via the green XML and orange IMG icon in the le@
side of the score names. MusicXML
(Music Extensible Markup Language) is an open standard e-
score format, many and many score applicaBons have already supported this format, so that the MusicXML e-scores can be shared among dierent score applicaBons. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Score List View Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn PDF/Image format is the classic format that people are familiar with. PDF, JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP all belong to these format. This format does not support as many funcBons as MusicXML has, however, PDF/Image format are very popular, many free scores you can nd exist in this format. Because of the naBve characterisBc of dierent formats, when you open the scores, you will see dierent operaBonal funcBons. MusicXML Func>ons When you open a MusicXML score, Accompanist detects the format and layouts the score content and relaBve funcBons as:
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Previous page.
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Next page.
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Back to score list view.
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Previous score.
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Next score.
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Zoom in
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zoom out score view.
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Change background texture. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn MusicXML Score View Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn
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Switch of performance model and edit mode.
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New blank score.
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Play score. PDF/Image Func>ons When you open a PDF/Image score, Accompanist detects the format and layouts the score content and relaBve funcBons as:
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Previous page.
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Next page.
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Back to score list view.
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Previous score.
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Next score.
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Zoom in
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zoom out score view.
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Load annotaBons.
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Switch of performance model and edit mode. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn PDF/Image Score View Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn
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Add text annotaBons.
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Add scratching annotaBons.
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Open metronome.
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Play background media.
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Auto turn page.
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Record play for auto turn page. Some of the funcBons behind the buQons should be easy to understand, for example, previous page, next page, back to score list view,
...etc. Please just play and experience the funcBons by yourself. For some funcBons you need to know more, they would be:
annotaBons, edit, record, and play. MusicXML In Details Edi$ng Clicking the
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) buQon to enter edit mode. You can see a raised up menu that supports you to edit annotaBons(
), notes(
), clefs Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn MusicXML Edi>ng Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn
), key signatures(
), and Bme signatures(
AnnotaBon:
This allows you to edit Title, SubBtle, Composer, Poet, Copyright, and add/delete Remarks on the scores. When you want to put an annotaBon, clicking a note and clicking Add Remarks, then you can add a remark on it. To delete the remark, simply clicking the remark and delete it by clicking the Del Remarks buQon. Note:
There are inserBon and moving modes. Click(
) buQon to become inserBon mode, then clicking a posiBon on the score, a chosen note will be inserted on that posiBon. To go back to moving mode, clicking the
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note to other posiBon.
) buQon again, and you drag the Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Clef:
Click to choose the clef of the score, and click the clef panel to change the clef. Key Signature:
Click to choose the key of the score, and click the key panel to change the key. Time Signature:
Click to choose the Bme signature of the score, and click the Bme signature panel to change. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Playing You can play the MusicXML score, just click
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) buQon to raise up the play panel, and click
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) buQon to start play. You can also tune the sound parameters. Click the
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) buQon to hide the play panel. There is a musical instrument adjustment control to let you change dierent performance musical instrument. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn PDF/Image In Details Due to naBve format limitaBon, available score funcBons in PDF/Image format are quite dierent from MusicXML format. Annota$ons To put the annotaBons on the PDF/Image scores, it is just like to draw something on the paper. Click
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) buQon to get into edit mode, and then click
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) buQon to open text annotaBon funcBon. Please click on the score view, the posiBon you want to add annotaBon, and you will get a so@
keyboard panel and input panel, just type the annotaBon content. Click
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annotaBon input panel. The color buQon means the text color.
) buQon to save, click
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Another annotaBon style is the drawing text, this is useful for
) buQon to close the those symbols that that so@
keyboard can not output. Click
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) buQon to get into edit mode, and then click
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) buQon to open drawing annotaBon funcBon. now you can start to draw the symbol annotaBons on the score. There is a rubber check box
), you can acBvate it, now the pan becomes a eraser that can erase all the contents excepBng for horizontal lines. Click
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) buQon to save, click
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) buQon to close the annotaBon input Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn panel. The color buQon means the text color. A@er you nish the ediBng, please be sure to click
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) buQon to go back to performance mode, or you can not conBnue the other operaBons. You can click
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) buQon to load annotaBons, and click
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) to hide annotaBons. This buQon is a switch buQon. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Connec>ng Accompanists Accompanists can be connected together for purposes. For example, you want to simulate a book, you can connect 2 Accompanists together, so one Accompanist can be as le@
page, the other one can be as right page. Accompanist has WiFi built-in, if several users can access the same wireless router, then they can login to a virtual classroom through wireless connecBon, and one Accompanist plays as master, others play as slaves, master can control all slaves. This funcBon is parBcularly Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn useful for teaching. Connec>ng 2 Accompanists There is a bundled data cable, please plug it into the DATA port at the Accompanist back side. In the le@-boQom side of the home screen, there is a connecBon buQon
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connected now.
), click it, then 2 Accompanists are The one which starts the connecBon will display the odd pages, the other one will display even pages, so that you can simulate a book with le@
and right pages. Please beware that the odd side plays as master, the even side plays as slave, which mean only master is operaBonal now, slave is not. To disconnect Accompanists, click
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Accompanist are disconnected.
) buQon, and the 2 To use this connecBon, please make sure the contents of the 2 SD cards used by the 2 Accompanist must be idenBcal, or even you can make the connecBon successful, the operaBons will be failed. Virtual Classroom Considering an idea that a teacher and students in a classroom, and the teacher wants to share her/his score operaBons to the students, what Accompanist can do for it?
It is very easy to connect mulBple Accompanists into a virtual Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Create A Virtual Classroom Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn classroom, then a master Accompanist can control all the other Accompanist, including turning pages, making annotaBon. You must have a wireless router to use this funcBon, all the virtual classroom communicaBons are through WiFi. Make sure all Accompanists are connected to the same wireless router. You can not use dierent wireless router to build a virtual classroom, cause you need the same single IP domain. You do not need the wireless router connecBng to internet, accessing internet does not impact this funcBons. To play as a teacher
(master) role, there is a virtual classroom
), click it. Input 4 digits number
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leQers) as classroom ID, and click Start buQon to create the virtual classroom. To play as a student role, also click the connecBon buQon
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), and choose a room ID in the le@, then click Join buQon to join the classroom. Please make sure you choose the correct classroom ID, or you will jump to a classroom that you are not supposed to be there. The master can see all students in the le@
list. Now the master
(teacher) can broadcast all the score operaBons to To close the virtual classroom, the master must go back to score the students, including turning pages, making annotaBons, ediBng and modicaBons. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn Join A Virtual Classroom Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn
), now the master just list view and click connecBon buQon
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needs to click the Close buQon, then all Accompanists is disconnected. To use virtual classroom, please make sure the contents of all the SD cards used by the Accompanists must be idenBcal, or even you can make the connecBon successful, the operaBons will be failed. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. NOTE: The manufacturer is not responsible for any radio or TV interference caused by unauthoriz ed modifications to this equipment. Such modifications could void the users authority to operate the equipment. NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to p art 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential inst allation. This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarant ee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment of f and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:
- Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
- Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
- Connect the equipment into an outlet on a ci rcuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.
- Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. Gennex Technology Limited h2p://www.gennex.com.cn