Mrs. Gwen’s Presets Installation Guide
MacGamut Installation Instructions
What you will need:
Your MacGamut 2006 CD
Computer with Internet Access
Flash Drive, Rewriteable CDRW or Floppy Disk (recommended)
To Install MacGamut, Insert the CD into your CD drive, and click on the “My Computer” icon in the start menu. Find the drive that the MacGamut CD is in, and open it. Find the “MacGamut Installer folder”, and double click the setup program. It will look like three sailboats with a blue background and say “setup.exe”.
Follow the on-screen instructions.
Register MacGamut by going to Macgamut.com. On the left of the screen, click “Register your software.” Follow the instructions on the screen, and when you get to the register your software screen, fill in the required information including the registration number that can be found inside the CD case. (some email servers remove attachments, so make sure you use your troy.edu email account). While you are here, save the updates.
Check your email and save the start file to your desktop and your floppy drive by right-clicking the attachment in the email and clicking on “save as.” Click the dropdown menu next to “Save in” to choose the locations to save it in (your desktop and a: [a drive])
Go to http://jinright4.edublogs.org/
Click on “MacGamut Presets” under the masthead (i.e. menu bar).
then download the aural skills I-II zipped folder (right-click on PC)
When the save box pops up, click on Save, and save the aural skills I-II folder to your MacGamut program folder. Do this by clicking on “save in”, then “C:”, then “Program Files”, then “MacGamut 2006”. Then click save.
Find this folder by following the instructions in the paragraph above but start in “My Computer. “ Extract the zipped presets folder by right clicking it and clicking “extract all”. Follow the instructions to extract the files into the “Macgamut 2006” folder.
Start MacGamut 2006 by double clicking on your start file (that should be on your desktop and/or on your floppy disk)
Choose “Change Presets”.
Find the aural skills I-II folder you just downloaded by once again going to the Macgamut 2006 folder like you did before. Go into the aural skills I-II folder and locate the file named “MACGAMUT6.mgp”
Load those and restart MacGamut.
This time Macgamut will ask for the library files. Click on Harmonic Library and find the matching file that it asks for in the “open” box. Do the same for “Rhythmic Library” and “Melodic Library”.
After these are loaded, continue. You should hear an arpeggiated chord being played back.
When you are finished, save a backup copy of your start file onto your floppy disk.
Every week, email the start file to me at gthreadgill@troy.edu.
(Dr. J’s students should send to jjinrig@troy.edu)
