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From: "Ed Federmeyer" <fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound
Subject: A great idea for a utility
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 12:22:35 -0500
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Hey gang!  I've got an idea for a Net Yaroze music utility, but I really,
really don't want to program it.  Part laziness, and part because I don't
want to program Net Yaroze tools.

BUT, if you want fame, fortune and eternal gratitude (ok, maybe not the
fortune part!  :-) how about this:

A program that takes a standard MIDI file (mysong.MID) and a "SoundFont"
file (mysounds.SBK or mysounds.SF2) and outputs a Yaroze SEQ file (with the
drum track automagically corrected: mysong.SEQ) and a VH/VB file
(mysounds.VH, mysounds.VB) with only the samples needed to play that song.
[Ideally, it can take several MIDI and "SoundFont" files so that the VH/VB
file created can be used with all the songs.]

You can get info on the "SoundFont" file format from the Emu web site
http://www.emu.com and looking through the support section.  It looks to me
like there is more than enough info inside a "SoundFont" format file to
create the VAB (VH/VB) files we need.

This is a tool that I think everyone would use!  Anyone else interested?
Comment here to hopefully drum up interest!

Ed Federmeyer