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Overlapping Divisions in MIDI Organ Files
By Hans van Oost

Fritz Gellerman wrote:

> This scale has two MIDI channels with the bass, accompaniment and
> melody on one channel and the trombone, trumpet and drums on the other.
> I'm ready to wire it up, but find that there is a one note overlap
> between the accompaniment and melody parts.  It appears that the thing
> to do is move the accompaniment to the second channel and the drums to
> the first.  Before doing this it would be nice to know if anyone else
> has a Wurlitzer 150 MIDI scale, so as not to have different scales
> floating around.

We had the same problems in Holland, and we now use a slightly changed
MIDI-scale.  By transposing the bass to melody scale an octave down,
there is place in the notes from C8 to C10 for counter-melody notes.
The drum section is transposed to the lowest octave, C0.  In that way
all notes will play from one channel.  We use this scale for arranging
music as well.  The original files are converted by a ".cal"-program
[Cakewalk] to fit the new scale.  If you are interested I could send
the Dutch MIDI-organ scale to you.

Regards,

Hans van Oost, Holland (EU, not Mich.)


(Message sent Sun 25 Jan 1998, 12:37:32 GMT, from time zone GMT.)

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