The Composite Station is a VJ software that composite and play AVI or QuickTime format movie source realtime. 　You can composite many movie sources with various effects. The operation is very simple. Assign movie source in your PC hard disc to PC keyboard or MIDI keyboard, nad just press the keys. If you press several keys at the same time, assigned movie sources are composite and played. The effect is also assigned to the key and you can turn it on and off quickly. Note: If you use PC keyboard, there is the limitation of how many keys you can press at the same time. So if your prefer to composite many movies at once, we recommend to MIDI keyboard. 　The swinging operation feeling is inherited on version 1.6. 　You can choose full SD size (640x480 pixels) or half SD size (320x240 pixels) at start up. You can enjoy highest quality SD size on high performance PC, or you can play easily choosing half SD size for low performance mobile note PC. 　If you are using latest PC with high speed RAID hard disc, you can enjoy mixing several effected movies of full SD size and full motion (30fps). 　Note: According to the start up mode, you need to prepare two different size movie sources 640x480 and 320x240. 　Note: CompositeStation 1.6 runs at 24bit full color. 　Connect MIDI keyboard to PC and switch the Composite Station to MIDI control mode. Then you can play movie sources by pressing MIDI keyboard. In addition, you can adjust parameter of FreeFrame plug-in by MIDI controller knobs or sliders. 　In addition to more than 30 native plug-ins included in Composite Station, you can install and use FreeFrame plug-ins. 　Note: Compatibility or functionality of FreeFrame plug-ins which are not developed by SGRA Corporation is not guaranteed. PC ：Windows PC OS ：Windows XP HomeEdition / Professional SP2 Graphics ：DirectX 9 must be installed and functional CPU ：640x480 mode・・・Pentium4 2GHz and above is recommended ：320x240 mode・・・Pentium3 1GHz and above is recommended Memory ：640x480 mode・・・512MB and above is recommended ：320x240 mode・・・256MB and above is recommended Free Disk Space ：Required free disk space depends on the amount and compression ratio of the movie sources (10GB and above is recommended.) Hard Disk ：640x480 mode・・・SerialATA RAID disc (RAID-0) and above is recommended ：320x240 mode・・・7200rpm (16M cache) single disc Display ：640x480 mode・・・1280x960 and above or 640x480 pixels with dual display ：320x240 mode・・・640x480 pixels and above MIDI interface ：WindowsXP compatible MIDI interface (Required only if you use MIDI controller) Sound card ：Not necessary (Composite Station 1.6 do not play sound in movie) 　(1) Check the required PC enviroment 　Download Composite Station trial versions and user manual, install, and play. Please check that the trial version of Composite Station 1.6 works on your PC. 　Note: Please note that we can not support installations or operation problems of trial versions. 　(2) Purchase via download, at FARSIDE Online Shop website. 　Composite Station 1.6 　　29800YEN (Japanese Yen) Yen to Dollar conversion 　Only credit card payment is accepted. Billing by yen is supported. 　Note: For continuous service of distributing update versions for Composite Station users, registering email account is required at purchase. 　(3) Installing the licensed version 　You can install the licensed version of Composite Station without uninstalling trial version. 　They are installed into different directories. 　Please read the user manual and use Composite Station 1.6. The manual is the same as trial version and it is downloadable from compositestation.com. 　 >> Buy Composite Station 1.6　(go to Farside Online Shop) 　You can download Composite Station 1.6 trial version for free. We recommend running trial version on your PC, before you purchase licensed version of Composite Station, to check if your PC is capable of running it. 　The only limitation of the trial version is automatic quite after 10 minutes. The trial version has same functionality as licensed version except that time limit. >> Download Composite Station 1.6 trial version. 　This user manual explains how to use Composite Station 1.6 in detail. 　To help your understanding of the product, the manual can be downloaded before you purchase. 　Please do not redistribute it without our permission. >> Download Composite Station 1.6 manual