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Midi archive - Thanks for feedback
By Robbie Rhodes

Will Wild,

I'm glad to learn that my efforts to include lyrics in the Midi file weren't in vain. The STAFF view situation is new to me and I'd like to investigate it. Could you send me a 16-measure extract from your choral arrangement (in .MID format) for analysis, please? Then I can determine how Cakewalk Pro handles it. Will Dahlgren may be interested, too.

Yes, the JEFFD Midi file is constant speed, because it is the "reconstituted" sprocket-drive master roll. Rob DeLand (BluesTone) and I aren't satisfied with simple roll-copying and transcribing processes; Richard Tonnesen (Custom Music Rolls) provides us with very clean transcriptions at high resolution which we then operate on to "re-create the master roll". In Midi file format the music of a pop tune usually lines up properly with the measure bars.

Send me the scale specification of your music box and I'll make a sample Midi file arrangement for you. In contrast to a cylinder, a disk has much better repitition of the high notes, and so a more elaborate "piccolo part" is possible.

-- Robbie Rhodes <rhodes@foxtail.com> 16 August 1995


(Message sent Thu 17 Aug 1995, 01:41:06 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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