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From: Elliott Lee <tenchi@netmagic.net>
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Subject: Re: Drum Problem
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 13:52:41 -0700
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Hm....

Richard isn't the only one with this weird problem, and even I may
be doing something wrong.  I have several MIDI files that I made
and converted with SMF2SEQ.  For the first 8 measures, everything
plays back fine (drums, bass, pads, leads, etc.).  But, then after
that I start losing instruments.  The drums disappear, then the bass,
then other parts of the song.  Weird.  And I was using the GM set
on the Yaroze boot disc.

I thought that it may just be my keyboard (Korg) when I saved the
song as an SMF, but then I created something in CakeWalk sequencer
and the same thing happened.

Is there something wrong with SMF2SEQ where the notes are missing
their key-off events and so the sounds being played suck up all
available voice channels?  Is there a prohibition against throwing
too many events on a single track (e.g. a complex percussion section
easily has dozens of notes per measure)?

*sigh*

Richard Malka wrote:
> 
> I have a Midi drum track which consists of a kick, snare, shaker, crash, mid
> tom and congo. There are 3 other instrument tracks. When I first played the
> seq file the shakers would not play. Then when I made the song longer the
> congos stopped playing. I have checked the min/max notes etc in the vab file
> and everything seems to be fine. I am probably doing something wrong but I
> am wondering if there are some limitations that I don't know about like the
> amount of drums you can use.
> 
> Help much appreciated.
> 
> Daniel Wilson

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