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From: Ed Federmeyer <fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound
Subject: Auto .MID file conversion available?
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 20:47:37 -0500
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I've taken a number of very good-sounding .MID files from the Internet,
and tried converting them to the Yaroze format, using the standard
SMF2SEQ.EXE and using the STD0.* files from the boot CD, but the
results sound awful.  You can *kind of* tell that the song is still
there, if you know what to listen for!

I seem to remember reading that the drum tracks need to be remapped.

Does anyone have a good tool that automatically takes an already
decent sounding General MIDI file, and auto-convert it to the Yaroze
.SEQ format, automagically remapping the drum tracks and doing
whatever else is needed to get the .SEQ to sound decent?

If not, I'll offer it up as a suggestion to someone who is looking
for a good Yaroze-support project!  :-)

There are a *ton* of great .MID files out there, and I'd like to just
'import' them into my Yaroze programs, without mich thought to manually
remapping drum-tracks, etc.

Thanks for any leads or tips,
Ed Federmeyer