Custom Soundtracks
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This setup installs the PowerPoint Custom Soundtracks add-in to your 
PowerPoint installation (you must already have PowerPoint installed).
This Custom Soundtracks add-in will allow you to add a smooth custom
soundtrack to your presentation, and provides many styles and motifs 
to complement the tone of your presentation.

Creating a Custom Soundtrack
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Once you have installed the add-in, you can create a custom
soundtrack for a presentation by choosing Custom Soundtrack on the
Slide Show menu in PowerPoint.

Playing a Custom Soundtrack
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The playback of the custom soundtrack requires only that
PowerPoint be installed and does not require the Custom Soundtracks 
add-in to be installed on the machine that will play the presentation.

Creating a Custom Soundtrack for a looping, self-running presentation
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If you are planning to run a presentation continuously and unattended, 
you should be sure to have at least one slide in the presentation that 
contains an End Music setting.  In addition, if your presentation 
contains branches, then this slide should be placed such that it is 
shown at least once per iteration of the presentation.  Failure to do 
this could result in eventual performance problems, or even crashes.

The easiest way to ensure that this does not happen is to insert a 
blank slide at the beginning of the presentation, give it an End Music 
setting, and set its slide timing to 0 seconds.

Yamaha XG Sound Cards
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For Yamaha XG sound cards, the drum instruments reside in a different 
bank from standard General MIDI (GM). If your XG module has been 
switched to XG mode by playing an XG MIDI file or XG enabled software, 
it will play an inappropriate instrument instead of drums. This occurs 
because the card received an XG initialization code from a MIDI file. 
To reset the card to GM mode, run the MIDI file GM_ON.MID, available 
in the Support area of the PowerPoint web site.