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MIDI Primer For Dummies
| John | 23 Jul 97 - 07:48 PM | |
| dick greenhaus | 24 Jul 97 - 11:26 AM | |
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Subject: MIDI Primer For Dummies From: John Date: 23 Jul 97 - 07:48 PM I have experimented with the tunes in the DT and a variety of abc format sites at Tunes at Ceolas. I am now wishing to venture a bit further into transcribing existing tunes plus tunes/songs that I am writing in a Celtic/folkie vein. But this MIDI stuff is quite dauntimg to a new-comer. There's such a proliferation of hardware and software available, and like a lot of people I don't choose to spend a lot of loot on it. For the time being I guess I have just a couple of fairly straight forward needs. (1) Input the tune, and fiddle with the dots, until I am happy with the musical result. And save it of course for onforwarding to DT or wherever. (2) Play the tune in a way which sounds more like a traditional instrument rather than the electronic noises that emanate from one of the kid's toys. Fiddle, concertina, whistle and Irish pipes would be great. Mandolin, banjo, harmonica, harp ...? I have a 486, and am just about to purchase a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 - unless someone talks me out of this. Any feedback and direction would be warmly appreciated. Regards John La Marca, if you read this I haven't forgotten about the tune for 'Farewell To The Rhonda' |
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Subject: RE: MIDI Primer For Dummies From: dick greenhaus Date: 24 Jul 97 - 11:26 AM Gi- SongWright (which I use) lets you do exactly what you're asking for, and, in addition, impots afrom and exports to MIDI and prints the music (in any key). It costs about $100. If you use Windows, MusicEase does much the same thing in a more GUI fashion, and has the advantage of being Shareware (You need at least 8 mB of memory, and the printing comes out with a watermark that should be no problem unless you want to prepare copy for commercial use. It will import SongWright files and MIDI files. (I found the address by searching for MusicEZ using Alta Vista).
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