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GUS Musician's Digest       Fri, 1 Apr 94 14:47 PST      Volume 6: Issue   1  

Today's Topics:
                       Concatenating MIDI files
                GUS Musician's Digest V5 #48 (3 msgs)
                      Help with Internet mailer
                     how to sequence drum tracks
                          Multi-MIDI driver

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Date: 1 Apr 94 07:20:00 MET
From: "VISX80::GRECNER" <GRECNER%VISX80.decnet@musx53.zfe.siemens.de>
Subject: Re: Concatenating MIDI files

>Does anyone know of a way, outside of working through a sequencer like
>PowerChords Pro (et al.), to concatenate MIDI files?  DOS concatenation
>(copy file1+file2 file12) doesn't do the trick (only works for DOS files,

try copy /b file1+file2 file12 , that's binary copy, it must work for you.

					Martin.

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 20:30:28 -0800
From: chrisw@popserver.stanford.edu (Chris Wilkins)
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V5 #48

>From: WADLEIGH@PROCESS.COM
>There is a need for a "super-driver" to split MIDI output among devices.  At
>present, high-end programs like Cakewalk and Encore support two devices, but
>even that may be inadequate for some setups. 

Cakewalk supports up to 16 devices. (I'm currently using 3). What more could 
you want? Of course, there is no midi mapper equivalent. you have to remap 
the channels and ports in the midi file using Cakewalk.

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Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1994 09:37:47 -0500
From: davidm@marcam.com (David MacMahon)
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V5 #48

>Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 19:23:45 -0800 (PST)
>From: Emory Menefee <em@crl.com>
>Subject: Concatenating MIDI files
>
>Does anyone know of a way, outside of working through a sequencer like
>PowerChords Pro (et al.), to concatenate MIDI files?  DOS concatenation
>(copy file1+file2 file12) doesn't do the trick (only works for DOS files,
>presumably).  I suppose a short C or BASIC program to do it in binary
>would be needed, but I would be happier if one that works were already 
>around.  Midi thanks,   Emory Menefee.                                

There are two things that could be causing this to not work.  One is easy to 
fix, the other is impossible to fix.  By default, the DOS copy command works 
in text or ASCII mode.  In this mode, it will copy a file until a 0x1A byte 
(control-Z character) is copied.  This is the End-Of-File (EOF) character.  
To get around this problem, use /b on the command line (copy /b file1+file2 
file12).  This will indeed concatenate the two files.

If the structure of a MIDI file is analagous to the structure of a .SND file 
(i.e. a simple binary stream) than this will work fine.  If, however, the 
structure of a MIDI file is analagous to the structure of a .WAV file (i.e. 
it has a header section and then a binary stream section) this will not work 
too well (if at all).  I don't know much (anything) about the internals of 
MIDI files so I don't know which case is true.  If the latter case is true, 
it sounds like a little utility is waiting to be written (midicat file1 
file2 file12).

Dave

David MacMahon
Software Engineer
davidm@marcam.com

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Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 11:11:19 EST
From: echen@verdi.sra.com (Eugene Chen)
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V5 #48

:
:Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 11:03:50 SST
:>From: FLAT^^TOP <kohkhang@iscs.nus.sg>
:Subject: how to sequence drum tracks
:
:hello
:
:My GUs is hooked up to a Sy22 synth, my Sy22 is regretfully not GMidi, so the
:drum kit on the Synth is totally different from the GUS, so i've been having
:extreme difficulty trying to sequence drum tracks, firstly i use winjammer,
:when channel 10 is selected, the drums on the GUS dun play using the Midi thru
:only when i load patch manager then i can play it, however, if i switch back to
:winjammer, it's silent ! i tried the winjammer, update patch cache (or
:something) function, but still no go...
:

do you know that it will only patch caches for the drums that are in 
the sequence? That is if there are no notes on track 10, nothing will be cached
if a Cuica Low happens to be played, it will be cached.  It brings up a 
problem, because, how can you enter notes until you hear the sound? but you
cant hear the sound until you play the note.  try entering a measure with
every drum  played then cache patches.

:i also tried the demo version of Cakewalk Pro 2.0, same story, am i doing
:anything wrong ?
:
:also the drums on the GUS seem to be one full octave below my keyboard, in
:other words, some of the keys are not reached by my keyboard... is there a way
:to shift the keys higher ?
:
:i hope someone knows what i am talking about and can help..
:
:cheers

at least within cakewalk you can transpose all notes via midi thru. I believe under
the Settings menu.  That is, notes come in on a particular channel, get dropped
an octave, according to your setting, before being sent out to the GUS or
whatever. (turn Local Off on your synth.)

good luck, eugene
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Date: 01 Apr 94 14:15:16 EST
From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Help with Internet mailer

Hi

Can anyone give me some specific examples of how to get the mailer to:

Find stuff on epas.

Get stuff on epas.

Please don't refer me to the help file - I've got it. I used to be able to get files, now I can't. I need some boiler plate.

I'm using the mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de mailer.

Even better, some kind soul send me mpb09.zip. 

Thanks, Eric

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Date: 01 Apr 94 08:14:33 EST
From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: how to sequence drum tracks

On... how to sequence drum tracks

Hi Jerry.

The best tool for you to use to sequence drum parts on the GUS is Power
Chords. Its quick, easy, has an auto-quantizing grid, and supports patch
caching.

Best of all, you can redefine the drum sound note numbers to match your SY22
if you wish. Access this option by selecting 'Options' then 'Drum Sounds'.

If you want to use the same drum tracks on both the GUS and the SY22, you
could do it if you upgrade to version 1.1 which can use the MIDI Mapper as an
output device. You would then keep Power Chords in the General MIDI (default)
config and use the normal GUS MIDI Synth driver for outputing to the GUS, and
use the MIDI Mapper for output to the SY22. You would define a drum keymap in
the MIDI Mapper that would remap the GM drum sounds to match the assignments
on your synth.

Hope this helps.

Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems

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Date: 01 Apr 94 08:14:38 EST
From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Multi-MIDI driver

Hal,

Doesn't the MIDI Mapper do what you describe?

Eric

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