README file for Soundsmith .9



	I have found Soundsmith 0.9 to be very picky.  You need 1.25 Megs.
This means you will have to set your ramdisk to 0k, unless you have more
than 1 Meg on a memory expansion card, or have a ROM 03 machine with a 
memory card.  Soundsmith also is picky about its arrangement with the
boot disk.  I couldn't get it to run using only 1 3.5" drive, 1.25 Megs, and
separate system and program disks.  After the program was run, it would 
request the system disk and then crash.  There are 4 solutions that I have 
found for the problem.  To run Soundsmith from GS/OS, run the 
SNDSMITH.SYS16 program, not MAIN.  The usage of MAIN is described below.
Don't delete it.

1) Use 2 3.5" drives. One for the Soundsmith disk and one for the GS/OS 5.0.2
   disk.

2) Put everything on a hard disk. (Nice if you can afford it and have space to
   use.)

3) If you have more than 1.5 Megs, you can set up a 288k ramdisk whenever you
   want to run Soundsmith.  This means that you will have to configure the 
  ramdisk whenever you run Soundsmith.  If you use this method, put the 6
  files of Soundsmith on the ramdisk.  If you have a GS-RAM, + or Ultra, there
  is a Autocopy utility that comes with the card that would be useful.

4) Put Soundsmith on the boot disk.  This is harder than it looks.  Soundsmith 
   needs around 256k for its 6 files, and the original system disk uses more 
   than 700k.  The answer is to eliminate extra files, but the question is  
   which ones.  There are several ways to open up space.  Use whatever 
   combination you need to get enough disk space.  If you follow all of them, 
   you can have the system and Soundsmith on 1 disk, with 163k left over.
   I recommend you use this disk only for Soundsmith and have a separate
   System disk for other programs.

   Starting with a copy of the original System Disk 5.0.2.  Boot another
copy of GS/OS so you can modify the disk without worrying about open files
or forks.

	If you have a ROM 01 machine, remove TS3 from  System/System.Setup.
	If you have a ROM 03 machine, remove TS2 from  System/System.Setup.
	Don't plan to use BASIC from this disk? Remove BASIC.SYSTEM and
	the BASIC.LAUNCHER from the top level.
	Don't plan to use Prodos 8?  Remove System/P8.
	Remove all desk accessories except those you can't live without.
	If you remove the control panel NDA, also remove the CDEV folder
	and System/System.Setup/CDEV.init. (Big memory saver).
	If desk access. folder is empty, remove it.  Same for AppleTalk.
	Remove everything in the font folder except for FastFont.
	
	Doing this much should free up enough space to allow you to put 
Soundsmith on a boot disk.  Other things to do are:

	Remove modem, printer, printer.setup, and imagewriter from the
	drivers folder. Soundsmith doesn't use any of these.
	Remove Expressload.
	Remove System/Start.  This is the Finder.  You must then rename 
	MAIN from Soundsmith to Start and put all of Soundsmith in the 
	System folder.  You can delete the other Soundsmith system program. 
	This frees up over 100k, but you can only use the disk for Soundsmith.
	Highly recommended.  Allows you to keep more DA's, CDEV's and Drivers.
	
	Replacing Start with a launcher will save space and still allow you to
	use the disk to run other programs.

				Have Fun,
					kelton@ocf.berkeley.edu
					Allen Kelton