Sam Harris wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone is arranging rolls for reproducers?  I know
> there are a few talented arrangers out there like George and Andy who
> do great work with 88-note rolls, but I was wondering why someone is
> not working on reproducing rolls?

To be frank, it's much, much harder to get right.   There are some
Ampico emulators out there, but I haven't been able to get ahold of one
so I could check the coding.  I thought of hooking up my "A" to MIDI,
but Wayne talked me out of it by pointing out the very large errors
that would be introduced by such an approach.   A trial and error
session with many iterations of test rolls would be both expensive, and
suffer the same error-prone-ness as hooking the "A" up to MIDI.

I've often thought that it would be a lot of fun to do Art Tatum'ish
arrangements for Ampico, but it's the mechanics of doing it that have
held me back.

George Bogatko
http://www.intac.com/~gbogatko