Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: Ed Federmeyer Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.sound Subject: Re: STD0 Sound Map Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:12:20 -0500 Organization: (no organization) Lines: 34 Message-ID: <33A9CAE4.5050@charlie.cns.iit.edu> References: <33A77DCD.55E8@bmc.com> <33A7D4A1.134E@interactive.sony.com> Reply-To: fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: charlie.cns.iit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0C-GZone (Win95; I) Stan Weaver wrote: > In addition to Kevin's very useful acquisition (good job, Kevin), I > would like to add my own list, which also shows how the sounds will or > will not relate to standard General MIDI patches. I hope you will find > them both to your benefit. A relativly early post of mine complained that the VAB mapping is not close enough to the GMIDI spec. And by the long listing, we can see that there is infact alot of duplication etc, which probably adds to the disparity. (ei, GMIDI glockenspiel is supposed to sound different than GMIDI TubularBell). Again, I'd have to ask that if Sony presses another Yaroze boot CD, can a VAB file be included that very closely (even moreso than STD0) matchs the GMIDI spec? It would be nice. But also, I seem to remember reading that the drum tracks are somehow mapped differently, and that you need to change the drum tracks from the GMIDI spec channel 10 (or whatever) to a different channel. What I'm wondering is: Does anyone have a general, easy-to-use, command line PC program to convert a General MIDI file off the 'Net' into a format that will actually sound good on the Yaroze? From my standpoint, I'd really not want to buy a full blown MIDI editor just to manually re-map drum tracks/notes. (Don't get me wrong: I play keyboards, and really like playing around with MIDI- It's just that right now I'm trying to concentrate on programming, and every evening I need to spend messing around with MIDI and sequences is an evening I don't spend learning 3D programming!) So, If there is a tool like this, where is it! :-) If not, do one of you "tools" gurus want to create one? :-) EdF