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GUS Musician's Digest       Mon, 4 Apr 94 14:51 PST      Volume 6: Issue   4  

Today's Topics:
               Better Piano/Elec. Piano patches?  Amps?
                       Can't concat MIDI files
        MIDI Mapper and Patch Caching (and a Windows player?)
                      Pressure and key pressure.
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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 9:00:56 CDT
From: Jon Holt <holt@holt.camax.com>
Subject: Better Piano/Elec. Piano patches?  Amps?

One more try:

Is there a good replacement for the GUS/GM Piano patch(es)?  Patch 0
doesn't hold together very well at +/- 2 octaves from middle C.
Sadly, my Casio CT-700 generates a stabler piano sound (or is it my
amp?).  I'd sacrifice the whole meg of patch space for a really solid
piano patch.  Any pointers greatly appreciated.

Next question: what's a good, reasonably inexpensive (<$150) amp setup
for the GUS output.  Right now I'm using an ancient boom-box line-in
which is tolerable for the cost (free), but I'd like to get a cleaner
sound.

-Jon

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Date: 04 Apr 94 09:10:25 EDT
From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Can't concat 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,

Okay, here's the final word on this - any sort of DOS concatenation of MIDI
files will not work. The information in the MIDI file is very carefully coded.
For one thing it is possible for different files to have different time bases
(ie. PPQN) for their delta times (the times stored for each event that
indicate how long from the last event till the event occurs). So you
might try to concat a 120ppqn file onto the end of a 96ppqn file.

You must have a piece of software that can handle this data in an intelligent
manner. This means a sequencer.

Eric

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 16:26 -0400
From: WADLEIGH@PROCESS.COM
Subject: MIDI Mapper and Patch Caching (and a Windows player?)

OK, MIDI Mapper does, indeed, split the channels just as I wanted.  The 
only catch is that it's not aware of patch caching.  It's not so bad, 
though, since multi-device files are not exactly what you set up for a
jukebox playback.

BTW, I recommend HP's Dashboard for Windows to anyone attempting to do
this sort of thing.  I have to keep PowerChords Pro, the Patch Manager,
MIDI Mapper, and sometimes another app or two open all at once.  Being
able to flip around in multiple screen displays is very helpful.

Has anybody come up with something like GUSORGAN to run under Windows?

Hal

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Date: 04 Apr 94 12:46:01 BST
From: John Wexler <wex@festival.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Pressure and key pressure.

What can I do with "pressure" and "key pressure" signals from an
external controller?

I have tried working with Recording Session, with both a Yamaha wind
controller (gives "pressure") and a keyboard (gives "key pressure").  As
far as I can see, Recording Session faithfully records and files these,
but does nothing with them on playback. 

Is there some way in which I can persuade it to vary the volume during
playback, following the "pressures"? Better still, can I adjust the
sensitivity to pressure? And finally, can pressure be made to control
any other aspect than loudness? It seems natural that channel pressure
would control loudness, but, for a keyboard player, you don't expect the
volume to vary if you press harder AFTER the note had started, so
perhaps key pressure could be used for some other refinement. 

    John Wexler
    Edinburgh

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