Midi Previews of music on rolls
By Bill Jelen
On 5/12, Dave Miller wrote:
> - Does anyone know if any of the player roll companies sell midi or audio
> "previews" of their rolls, i.e. collections of the first minute or so of
> a whole bunch of their rolls to help you decide which rolls you might want
> to purchase? When ordering rolls "sight unseen" it seems like 25% of the
> time I am pleasantly surprised and 75% of the time disappointed.
It is not highly publicized, but QRS has a MIDI catalog. Call them and ask for their pianomation catalog. All of the pianomation disks are available as regular MIDI disks also. Each sells for $25. They generally contain 15 single rolls. Also, previews of some of Artcraft's rolls are available on an audio cassette. I've had requests for a MIDI preview of my Bam-Bam catalog, but it would be a licensing nightmare. If I release a demo disk, I have to get a second license for each song on the disk and pay the full royalty for any song that appears for more than 6 seconds. The administrative red tape makes it prohibitive for me.
--Bill Jelen |
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