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      README : SSEYO Interactive Koan Music Control pack (IKMC) V5.0
                           31st August 1998
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Thank you for using this SSEYO Koan product !

Depending on how you downloaded this product, the first thing you will probably
need to do is to install the product. Instructions for doing this are given
below.

Both the SSEYO Koan Active X control and the SSEYO Koan Plugin will be
installed (the latter will be installed under any 32-bit browser program that
can be detected by the setup program, including Internet Explorer and Netscape
Navigator).

The SSEYO Koan Plugin is used by both Internet Explorer, and by Netscape
Navigator. It is highly programmable and interactive when running under
Netscape Navigator - and will play music from web pages under both navigators.
Please refer to the SSEYO web site for more details (http://www.sseyo.com).

The SSEYO Koan Active X control is used only by Internet Explorer. It is highly
programmable and interactive when running under Internet Explorer -
please refer to the SSEYO web site for more details (http://www.sseyo.com).

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What's new in the IKMC V5.0 release - August 31st 1998 ?
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The IKMC 5.0 release is synchronised with SSEYO's Koan Internet Music Mixer -
the SKimmer - which is the world's first online generateive music mixing
system !

  Try the SKimmer at http://www.sseyo.com/skimmer/skimmer.html

The IKMC 5.0 release includes the following key features :
- Recording to both MIDI and WAV file formats !
- Seriously improved plugin performance (especially noticeable when the IKMC
  is playing music in a background browser window) !
- The IKMC menu is now activated from both the Left-hand *and* the Right-hand
  mouse buttons. This is to help with cross-platform website design using the
  IKMC, preparing for the soon-to-be released Mac version of the IKMC, which
  is currently in development (Koan Pro for the Power Mac is in Beta release
  at time of writing) ...
- SoundFont playback on SBLive cards !
- Tested under Windows 98 !
- Numerous tweaks and bug fixes

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To install the software ...
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1. Run the downloaded file (IKMCSD50.EXE, IKMCG_50.EXE or IKMCP_50.EXE), and
   follow the on-screen instructions.

   NOTE : YOU ARE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED TO CLOSE YOUR WEB BROWSERS AND ANY
   SSEYO KOAN APPLICATIONS YOU MAY BE RUNNING, BEFORE RUNNING THE SETUP
   PROGRAM !

   For further information, please refer to the read-me file
   (e.g. READKNPW.TXT) which comes with each of the above installations (and
   also the license and online help file with Koan Web).

   Each software product has its own software license - please read and agree
   to the terms of the Software License.

2. Once you have installed the SSEYO Koan software, you will now want to
   surf the SSEYO Koan Web site, at http://www.sseyo.com, to check-out what
   you can do with the contents !

   You can also open SSEYO Koan Files (*.skp, *.skd, *.skt, *.skm)
   straight from your hard disk, by using either Netscape Navigator's
   File Open menu and selecting the appropriate file type, or by
   using Microsoft Internet Explorer's File Open menu and then
   pressing the Browse button to search for the SSEYO Koan file of Interest.

   Use your mouse to click on the Koan icon that is displayed, and the file
   will play automatically !

   To quickly add beautiful Koan Music to your web page, just copy the following
   into the body of your web page :
      <EMBED SRC="http://www.sseyo.com/images/mythous2.skp" Height=32 width=32 AUTOSTART=true>

   Now that you have tried Koan Plug-in and Koan Active X, why not download
   Koan X from our website, or Koan Pro demo : or purchase the Gold or
   Platinum versions of Koan Active X and Koan Plugin ?

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Plug-in and Active X Control Tips
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There is a considerable amount of functionality that you can access from both
the Plug-in and Active X controls, by using the mouse button to click on the
flashing Koan icon. This causes a pop-up menu to be displayed, from which you
can select the option you want.

Mouse Menu option                     What it does
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"Play..."                             Play the piece.
"Rewind ..."                          Rewind the piece by 10%.
"Forward ..."                         Fast-forward the piece by 10%.
"Stop..."                             Stop the piece playing.
"Pause..."                            Pause the playing piece.
"Continue..."                         Continue playing the paused piece.
"Record Koan music ..."               Record the session to MIDI or WAV file.
"Save to local play file ..."         Save a local play-only (.skp) version
                                      of the current edited version of the
                                      piece (which must be either a .skd or
                                      .skt file).
"Save to development file ..."        Saves the edited version of the piece
                                      to a local .skd file.  Feature only
                                      available in IKMC Platinum.
                                      You must also have Koan Pro or Koan X
                                      to enable this feature.
"Save snapshot of file ..."           Saves a "snapshot", or a local copy,
                                      of the current piece, which can be
                                      either an .SKP, .SKD, .SKT or .MID
                                      file.  Feature only available in IKMC
                                      Platinum.
"View Piece Details ..."              View the author's piece notes
"Setup ..."                           Start the Setup dialog, where you can
                                      configure the IKMC, enable/disable
                                      Direct Sound support etc.
"Abort Download..."                   Abort the download of any currently
                                      downloading Koan files.
"Launch Koan Helper Application ..."  Launch the Koan Helper application,
                                      if any is available for the current
                                      piece type.  If none is found, and you
                                      have Koan Web installed, then Koan Web
                                      is launched instead.  Note that the
                                      location of you copy of Koan Web is
                                      defined in the Setup dialog.
"About SSEYO Koan Plug-In ..."        Display version and other information.
"Connect to SSEYO Koan Web Page"      Connect to the SSEYO web page, for the
                                      latest Koan news !

When you are when web-surfing, if you find a SSEYO Koan Plug-in playing piece
that you really like, and if you have downloaded and installed Koan Web, then
all you have to do is select "Launch Koan Helper" from the pop-up menu that
you get when you click the right-hand mouse button on the Plug-in. This piece
will then stay with you while you browse through the web !

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SUPPORT
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Sorry, but no support is given for Koan Web, Koan Music Plug-in for Netscape
Navigator, Koan Active X, Koan X Silver, or the Koan Pro Demo product.

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MIME Types and Playing Koan Files over the WWW
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The following is the syntax to embed a Koan file in your web page, to be played
by a Plug-in :

  <EMBED SRC="images/mythous2.skp" Height=32 width=32 AUTOSTART=true>

or

  <EMBED SRC="http://www.sseyo.com/images/mythous2.skp" Height=32 width=32 AUTOSTART=true>

or

  <EMBED SRC="http://www.sseyo.com/images/mythous2.skp" Height=32 width=32 AUTOSTART=false>

To embed a plain vanilla hot-link to a Koan file, just do :

  Click on me with Koan Web <a href="images/mythous2.skp">MYTHOUS2.SKP</A> to download me !

or

  Click on me with Koan Web <a href="http://www.sseyo.com/images/mythous2.skp">MYTHOUS2.SKP</A> to download me !

Note if you like, you can use Koan Web to play Midi files, our Plug-in
no longer supports the facility to play Midi files, to prevent conflict
with other midi player Plug-in.

  > Hi, I really want to try out your great-sounding Koan software and
  > music. I've downloaded and installed your 32-bit plug-in for my Netscape
  > Navigator browser. I also know a lot about HTML code but
  > no matter what I tried I couldn't embed a Koan file on my Web pages so
  > that Koan music would play when they're accessed.

  If the problem occurs when you are trying to play Koan files (e.g.
  .skp/.skd/.skt/.skm), such as come in our Koan Gift Box file from our web 
  site, then your problem will be due to your web service provider not yet
  having defined our Koan MIME types - full details of how to do this on our
  web site ! (It is a piece of cake for them to do, and would take them
  literally only 1 or 2 minutes - see http://www.sseyo.com/mime.html)
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What's new in the 1st October 1998 Release ?
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The 1st October 1998 release marks the release of Koan Pro 2.1 for the Power
Macintosh !

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What's new in the 31st August 1998 Release ?
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* The Interactive Koan Music Control is now released at V5.0 ! 
  IKMC V5.0 ties-in with the incredible SSEYO SKimmer portal :

    http://www.sseyo.com/skimmer/skimmer.html 

* All SSEYO products now include built-in SoundFont support for SBLive cards !
  This is true for SSEYO Koan Music Engine (SKME) version 2.21.1 and later.

* There are now even more top-quality Koan template packs for Koan X, Koan Pro
  and the IKMC : all available from the SSEYO website.

  At time of writing, our template pack range now includes :
    AWE Pack #1
    AWE Pack #2
    AWE Pack #3
    Lo-Fi Disparates #1     [SoundFont - NEW !]
    Lo-Fi Disparates #2     [SoundFont - NEW !]
    Lo-Fi Disparates #3     [SoundFont - NEW !]
    Lo-Fi Disparates #4     [SoundFont - NEW !]
    Lo-Fi Disparates #5     [SoundFont - NEW !]
    Lo-Fi Disparates #6     [SoundFont - NEW !]
    Hammond Pack #1         [SoundFont - NEW !]
    Morphing Drum'n'Bass #1 [SoundFont - NEW !]
    SoundFont Guitar #1     [SoundFont - NEW !]
    SoundFont Guitar #2     [SoundFont - NEW !]
    Terratec Pack #1
    XG Pack #1

  More template packs are to come soon - watch the SSEYO web site for details !

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What's new in the V2.1 release - January 1998 ?
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* As of the end of January 1998, SSEYO have released a revision of it's entire
  range of authoring tools and playback software :

  SSEYO Koan Music Engine (SKME)              : 2.10 (was 2.01)
  SSEYO Koan Pro                              : 2.10 (was 2.01)
  SSEYO Koan Web                              : 2.10 (was 2.01)
  SSEYO Koan X                                : 1.10 (was 1.01)
  SSEYO Interactive Koan Music Control (IKMC) : 4.10 (was 4.06)
  SSEYO Koan Album Editor                     : 2.10 (was 1.40)
    [Note : the Album Editor is contained within Koan Web Platinum]

  We're calling this the "V2.1" release, though Koan X and the IKMC are
  actually numbered differently for historical reasons !

* The main feature of this release, is the incorporation of SSEYO's new
  "WAV Map" technology across our range of products : which adds advanced
  support for WAV-file based instruments to all our 32-bit products !
  SSEYO's new Koan "WAV Map" technology has many features and benefits :

  - You can now write Koan Music pieces that incorporate instruments based
    around small or large WAV files. For example, one small WAV recording of
    e.g. a guitar sound, can be used to generate an entire generative guitar.
    Koan automatically scales the frequency of the sample, to play your samples
    back using the full power of the SSEYO Koan Music Engine (SKME) !
  - If you write a piece to use only WAV-based instruments, then that piece
    will sound the same when played back on any PC with the appropriate Koan
    Music engine and Direct Sound 5 support, irrespective of soundcard !
  - This means that fast-downloading generative music publishing, with
    consistent playback on *any* PC soundcard, is now possible using the
    freely available IKMC pack ! 
  - You can mix and match MIDI, WAV and SoundFont based sounds together in the
    same piece - no problem.
  - Benefits of mixing-in the WAV stuff with MIDI, include the circumenting
    of any MIDI Line limits, and side-stepping any SoundFont sample memory
    limits (your WAV-based instruments are basically now limited by the
    physical memory capacity and raw performance of your PC).
  - We support the use of "recycled" breakbeats - played back from small
    WAV file fragments. Use Steingberg's "Recycle" or Square Circle's
    "Wave Surgeon" products to create these WAV files from larger recordings :
    and use Koan Pro to create the generative breakbeats patterns that will
    play-back consistently on any platform !
  - You can use our WAV-based instrument support with both our Auto-Chording and
    Koan ADSR features : Koan ADSR even works for auto-chording WAV-based
    instruments (something that could never be achieved with MIDI-based
    instruments) !
  - You can now record your playback sessions direct to WAV file, *even* when
    playing using WAV-based instruments (when using the appropriate Direct
    Sound 5 drivers) !
  - Minimum specification : Pentium P90 or better with Windows 95/NT4 or later,
    and Direct X 5 or later. If you do not have Direct X 5 installed, then
    the software will still work properly, but without advanced WAV Map
    playback.

  NOTE : To be able to use the Wave file-based instruments, do please
  ensure that you are using a MIDI Output device (see the Setup dialogs)
  that does not use any Software Synth component - these often have
  un-cooperative DirectSound usage, which would prevent you getting any
  Wave file-based output !  We recommend that you use any pure-MIDI
  output device e.g.  "AWE64G Midi Synth" ...  selecting "MIDI Mapper"
  (the default) or similar can occasionally catch you out.

* Most of our products now support MIDI play-along ! (all 32-bit and 16-bit
  products except for those "free" products that do not time-out : Koan Web
  Silver, IKMC Silver, and some special "bundle" editions of Koan X Silver)
  - You can set-up your MIDI keyboard (or other MIDI controller) to play-along
    with your currently playing piece : the music will harmonise with and 
    adjust itself to what you are playing.
  - If your piece has been set-up using Koan Pro to use SSEYO's "Listening
    Voice" hyperinstrument capabilities, then you will be able to achieve a
    wide range of effects, including keyboard-splitting, auto-chording and
    following and more !

* Koan Pro now supports the same "easy-use" patch entry system as used in
  Koan X - this now makes SoundFont and WAV usage in Koan Pro a piece-of-cake !
  Both Koan X and Koan Pro patch-entry systems have now been expanded
  to support the new advanced WAV instrument support. Koan Pro still allows
  Koan Pro power-users to optionally edit Patch parameter strings by hand, for
  advanced effects such as assigning different WAV samples to different parts
  of a Voice's audio spectrum ("splitting the keyboard").

* Koan Web Platinum (32-bit version) now incorporates a native 32-bit Album
  Editor, with long filename support.

* Our first "Koan Essentials" template pack - Morphing Drum'n'Bass #1 by
  Tim Didymus - a joint release with Zero G - is a superb showcase for
  both our new WAV Map technology and our existing industry-leading SoundFont
  support. It incorporates 100 Koan X templates for use with Koan X Platinum :
  in both SoundFont and WAV-based formats. The pack includes more than 8
  megabytes of SoundFont samples, and more that 8 megabytes of WAV samples,
  letting you create amazing Drum'n'Bass generative dance music by simply
  dragging-and-dropping Koan templates. A special version of Koan X Silver
  ("ZG Edition") is included in the pack, to allow people without Koan X
  Platinum to get a taste for this fantastic new music-making technology !

* All our products now incorporate a very easy-to-use installer, with full
  uninstall capabilities. Web-based installation of our software is now a
  snip !

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To Come:
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Keep an eye on our web site (http://www.sseyo.com) for information on future
releases of Koan X Silver / Koan X Gold / Koan X Platinum ... as well as packs
of more hot new Koan templates for your copy of Koan X. More information in the
on-line Koan X help file !

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World Wide Web:
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Don't forget you can use SSEYO Koan Web, SSEYO Koan Plugin, or SSEYO Koan
Active X to play back Koan pieces. Koan Web is also suitable for use as as
helper applications for WWW browsers such as Navigator(TM), Internet Explorer
or Mosaic(TM). Create your own pieces with SSEYO Koan Pro and SSEYO Koan X
for use on the web.  See our web page for more details (http://www.sseyo.com).

We looking forward to your feedback on this exciting product, and we recommend
discussion in the Internet newsgroup comp.music.midi.

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Creative Labs AWE64 / AWE32 / SB32 owners :
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If you have the 32-bit version of one of the SSEYO Koan products,
and you use a Creative Labs AWE64/AWE32/SB32 card and wish to use
SoundFont banks from within Koan ... then the standard Creative Labs file
AWEMAN32.DLL must exist somewhere in your system path.

In the unlikely circumstances that this file is not present on your machine,
then contact Creative Labs for the latest driver pack (http://www.creaf.com).
Please also see the FAQ on the SSEYO Web site (http://www.sseyo.com)

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EMU8710 Music Card
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The latest 32-bit Koan software (where the SKME is of version 2.04 or later)
now includes seamless support for the EMU8710 Music Card !

This includes FULL SoundFont support (for .SF2 files) !

To use the features of this card, simply treat your Koan software just as
though you were using a Creative Labs AWE64/32/SB64/SB32 soundcard.

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No Sound ?
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If you are getting no sound output from your SSEYO Koan product, please
check the following :

1. Check that you have a valid MIDI Output device specified (check : the
   Setup Options dialog, available through your SSEYO Koan product's Menu).
   SSEYO Koan will default to use the Midi Mapper, which may not have been
   specified properly on your machine - in which case, you can either set-up
   the Midi Mapper properly, or change the Midi Output device to instead be the
   direct driver for your soundcard.
   (Note : for Win 95 users, the MIDI mapper is the default instrument, which
   is defined through Control Panel / Multimedia / MIDI  ... the instrument
   you specify here, is that selected when you specify "MIDI Mapper" as your
   Koan Midi Output Device.)

2. Check that you have at least 1 MIDI device available on your system ! If you
   have none (very rare), then you must either buy a new soundcard which
   supports MIDI, or get hold of some of the new software-only synth drivers,
   such as the Yamaha SoftSynth.

3. Check that you have not specified "SB16 Midi Out" or some other device by
   mistake, without having an external sound source connected !

4. Check that you have not set the SSEYO Koan master volume level to 0 or very
   low.

5. Make sure that you have not used Koan Web to mute your SSEYO Koan output.

6. Check that your soundcard's master Midi output level has not been set to 0
   or very low, or muted altogether.

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If nothing else seems to work ...
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If you've tried everything, and get no output at all ... check all the
following !

1. Check that you have sufficient memory, and check that virtual memory is
   enabled !
2. Close down all Koan applications.
   Just in case one of your .ini files has become corrupted, delete the
   following files from your c:\windows directory, where they exist :
     sseyo.ini
     koan*.ini
     kplus*.ini
     kweb*.ini
     kpro*.ini
     koanpro.ini
3.  Re-start your Koan product, and using the Setup Options dialog, set your
    device driver to be a direct driver like "AWE64 Midi Synth", if this is
    available. Click OK. Open and play a piece. Stop the piece. Close your 
    Koan product.  If this works, then your Midi Mapper is broken, but your
    system is now useable. Otherwise, try step 3.
4.  As a final measure, try yet another Midi output device. If one of 
    the other device drivers clears the problem, then your soundcard is 
    mis-behaving : call your technical support contact for advice. Otherwise,
    if *none* of the midi devices clear the problem, then you are probably
    having problems with your memory manager ...

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REMEMBER  REMEMBER  REMEMBER  REMEMBER  REMEMBER  REMEMBER  REMEMBER
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Remember to check out our Website for new software, pieces and templates !

The Koan GiftBox page (http://www.sseyo.com/koangbox.html) includes a number
of Koan files you can freely use on your own website to 'Koan enable' it.  Why
not give it a go?  It is really easy to do - see the Adding Koan page
(http://www.sseyo.com/addkoan.html).

Better still, why not create your own Koan .SKP files using Koan X, and put
those pieces on your web site, embedded in your web pages ? Easy to do, and
gives a fantastic new dimension to your web site !

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"Float" by Tim Didymus, a SSEYO Koan music title
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SSEYO has now launched the SSEYO Koan music title called "Float" by Tim
Didymus, so please check our website for full details of how to purchase !
It comes with a large number of pieces specially written for the following
soundcards:

  Creative Labs AWE64/AWE32/SB64/SB32 soundcard
  Yamaha DB50XG, or other Yamaha XG-compatible sound source
  Gravis Ultrasound
  IBM MWave
  Orchid NuSound
  Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 /  Win 3.1
  Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 / Win 95
  Roland SCC1 or compatible expander module
  Yamaha Soft Synthesizer SGM-MM
  TDK MusicCard

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Brian Eno's "Generative Music 1", a SSEYO Koan music title
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SSEYO has released this major SSEYO Koan music title, created by Brian
Eno with SSEYO Koan Pro. 

"The works I have made with Koan symbolise the beginning of a new era of 
music.  There are now three musical alternatives: live music, recorded music 
and generative music.  Generative music enjoys some of the benefits of both 
its ancestors. Like live music it is always different. Like recorded music it 
is free of time-and-place limitations - you can hear it when and where you
want. I really think it is possible that our grandchildren will look at us in
wonder and say: 'you mean you used to listen to exactly the same thing over
and over again?' ". (Brian Eno 1996)

Brian Eno is the 1996 BRITs Producer of the Year for Outside by David Bowie, 
and pioneer of ambient music. Brian Eno's Generative Music 1 was produced
with SSEYO Koan Pro.

It includes 12 Brian Eno Koan files with SSEYO Koan Plus V1.2 (Win 95/ 3.1 
versions) on floppy disk.  Requires Creative Labs AWE64/SB32/AWE32 soundcard.

See our website for more details!

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"Niskala" by Jamuud, a SSEYO Koan music title
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SSEYO has now launched the SSEYO Koan music title called "Niskala" - the
hidden magic underneath - created by Jamuud of Loop Guru (using SSEYO Koan
Pro), so please check our website for full details of how to purchase !
It comes with a large number of pieces for both General Midi, and a number
of SoundFont pieces specially written for the AWE64/AWE32/SB32 soundcards !

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PURCHASING SSEYO KOAN PRODUCTS
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US Dealers:
==========
Time+Space Distribution USA
  99 Osgood Place
  San Francisco
  California 94133
  USA
  Tel: 800 411-4655
  Tel: 415 392 8933
  Fax: 415 392 8934
  Email: ts.usa@ix.netcom.com

UK Dealers:
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Time+Space Distribution Ltd
  Owlsfoot Business Centre
  Sticklepath
  Nr Oakhampton, 
  Devon EX20 2PA
  UK
  Tel: +44 (0)1837 841100
  Fax: +44 (0)837 840080
  Email: sales@timespace.com

Software Warehouse:
  Tel: +44 (0)1675 466467
  Fax: +44 (0)1675 466460
  WWW: http://www.software-warehouse.co.uk

Software Catalogue:
  Tel: +44 (0)1494 455455
  Fax: +44 (0)1494 455456
  e-mail: sales@softcat.demon.co.uk

Japan Dealers
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EYES Co Ltd:
  Tel: +81 (0)3 5295 1931
  Fax: +81 (0)3 5295 1932
  e-mail: eyes@tky.threewebnet.or.jp

Australia Dealers
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Toy Satellite:
  Tel: +61 (0)3 9486 9764
  WWW: http://www.peg.apc.org/toysatellite

Distributors:
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Ingram Micro Limited:
  Tel: +44 (0)1908 260422
  Fax: +44 (0)1908 265584

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PURCHASING DIRECT FROM SSEYO
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Please see our website (http://www.sseyo.com) for the latest pricing
on products purchased direct from SSEYO.

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SSEYO CONTACT DETAILS
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SSEYO Ltd, Weir Bank,
Monkey Island Lane,
Bray, Berks,
SL6 2ED
UK

Tel:+44 (0)1628 629828
Fax:+44 (0)1628 629829

WWW:        http://www.sseyo.com
Internet:   koaninfo@sseyo.com

SSEYO Limited - The Internet Music Company and creators of KoanMusic
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