On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 22:42 +0100, Peter Farrow wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 22:29 +0100, Peter Farrow wrote:
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Have you heard the music on your website recently........
no - and I forgot the login to my webhost years ago and haven't been able to change a thing on the website - not to mention that I don't think I've had a midi player on my linux system for quite some time...
Working? Not working?
unfortunately its working....
:-)
---- depends if you are a Genesis fan...if you are, they are interesting though there are one or two songs that can sound cheesy on some poorly instrumented midi systems, I recall them all to be superbly arranged and very lightweight considering that they are midi - and let me assure you, they take a lot of time to create. The piano work on Fifth of Firth was absolutely superb.
In fact - a funny story about those particular midi files. One day, I picked up a real cheap midi keyboard. I got a cheap midi interface and downloaded a few midi songs from the internet (still using dial-up) and dumped one to the keyboard. It sounded like crap. Figured out that my cheapo midi keyboard didn't support general midi so I had to manually assign the instruments to the tracks.
Downloaded one of these songs and my keyboard went into "OVERLOAD" - I cracked up. Decided to actually buy a decent keyboard. Went to expensive store in town, they had me looking at Yamaha keyboards. Went to cheap store in town, they directed me to same Yamaha keyboard, $100 less. I asked if I could bring in a midi file and dump it to keyboard to see how it sounded - they said sure.
I brought back 2 floppy discs...same midi songs, 1 on Macintosh format, 1 on Windows format floppy (I didn't know - they didn't know either). Hooked up midi floppy disk drive, they didn't know how to make it work. That was up my alley, so I got it to read the disk (Windows) and dumped the first song to the keyboard...sounded good. Dumped the Fifth of Firth song (same one on my Internet page) on the keyboard...after about 2 minutes, there was a crowd around the keyboard...Dumped the final song, the acid test...Cinema Show (I believe the midi is one of the random songs played on my web site) and the song started to play - now everyone in the entire store is over at the keyboard wondering who is playing this...Needless to say, I bought the keyboard and the store salesman asked if he could keep the disk.
The Cinema Show midi was a collaboration of like 6 different artists and took months to do - it's like a 15 minute song. From my keyboard, it's awesome...I take out the guitar track, plug in my guitar and I am a rock band ;-) I was even able to generate the sheet music from the midi file...technology can be an incredible thing.
I'm glad it's still working - sorry it isn't your cup of tea.
Craig