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Change quotes in AsciiDoc to left/right Unicode versions

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GitHub’s AsciiDoc parser barfs on the standard AsciiDoc syntax to
represent such characters with only ASCII…  Well, everybody should
support UTF‐8 these days.  Let’s just use these directly.
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Doom's music consists (effectively) of MIDI music files. MIDI is an odd
beast. The General MIDI standard defines a set of 128 common instruments
supported by MIDI playback systems. For example, instrument #10 is
``Glockenspiel''. You can think of them like the instrument presets on
“Glockenspiel”. You can think of them like the instrument presets on
an electronic keyboard. You can find a full list of instruments
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/General_MIDI[on Wikipedia].
Modern synthesizers, keyboards and operating systems with MIDI playback
capability use recorded samples of real musical instruments, so when
the MIDI file specifies ``Glockenspiel'' as the instrument, you hear
the MIDI file specifies “Glockenspiel” as the instrument, you hear
notes from a real glockenspiel playing the song. But Doom is from an
older, more primitive age.
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Glockenspiel, change the settings and it sounds like a bass guitar or
a snare drum instead.
These ``knob settings'' are commonly stored in .sbi instrument files.
These “knob settings” are commonly stored in .sbi instrument files.
Looking online you can find huge collections of .sbi files created back
when people still actually used them.
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instrument file and editing it, so press Ctrl-L to load an instrument
into the first slot. Find one of the existing SBI files that you want
to improve and press enter to select it; you should see the instrument
appear next to ``iNS_01'' in the first slot.
appear next to “iNS_01” in the first slot.
To hear what the instrument currently sounds like, you can use the keys
on your keyboard like a piano:
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To improve the current instrument settings, press tab to bring up the
instrument editor. You'll get a panel with a wide range of different
settings to play with, and you can still use the ``piano keys'' to hear
settings to play with, and you can still use the “piano keys” to hear
what effect your changes are having. Press enter to switch between
editing the carrier and the modulator - they both affect the sound in
different ways.
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When it comes to saving your changes, press Ctrl-S and type a filename
for your new file. There's a slight catch here in that although AT2 can
load SBI format instrument files, it can only save in its own ``a2i''
load SBI format instrument files, it can only save in its own “a2i”
instrument format. Fortunately we can convert back into SBI format
later.