Tutorial - Play:  use Ditty to play a bunch of .mid files

First off, hover over buttons for help.



Start Ditty from the start menu (Start->Ditty->Ditty)
Click the songlist toobar button (leftmost one).
This pops a songlist dialog.



Click the find toolbar button (folder with magnifying glass)
Choose the "Demo" folder and click "Ok" to load all .mid files in
   that dir into Ditty's SongList.
The first song starts playing out the 1st midi device you picked
   in MidiCfg's MidiOut list.

Resize the dialog window to how you want it.
   (probably full screen height and wide enough to see most paths)
Close this dialog to go back to the main window of Ditty.



- You will see a drop down list box (it's the SongList)
  that contains the filenames of the song files to play.

  Pick another song in the Song list to skip to it.

  The song list is saved across Ditty sessions in the file
  {MidiPath}\Song\_List\_new.songlist

  .songlist files can be doubleclicked on and Ditty will start playing them.

- the star toolbar button brings up a window to rate the current song.
  It formats up the name in an {artist}_{rating}_{title}_lyr.mid format where
     artist - name of the group/performer/whatever
     rating - a,b or c.  (awesome, basic or crappy)
     title  - yearOfAlbum/album/songNumber/songTitle/etc
     _lyr   - tacked on to show if the song has lyrics
     example:  Journey_a_1981_Escape_01_DontStopBelieving_lyr.mid
     Come on people.  Name those midi files RIGHT.  MSDOS is DEAD.  Rejoice.

  You can also completely DELETE the currently selected song.  Set rating to D.
     It -WILL- delete the actual .mid file.

- Ditty also displays the current song's:
    Time (where we are now in the song in bars.beats),
    Bars (length of song in bars),
    Tempo (BeatsPerMinute, QuarterNotesPerMinute TECHnically), and
    TimeSignature (beats per bar:note for a beat)

    Lyrics display in the status bar if available.
       Current syllable is highlighted in yellow.



  You will also see each of the song's tracks'
     name, sound, device, channel, volume (for SF2 drums only), # events and
       the sound's description

  The confused smiley toolbar button brings up help.

  The eye brings up Tinker to view the song graphically...

Next up, viewing midi files with Tinker.