Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: Ed Federmeyer Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.sound,scee.yaroze.programming.sound Subject: Re: MIDI conversion question. Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:28:13 -0500 Organization: (no organization) Lines: 32 Message-ID: <344D72CD.36B8@charlie.cns.iit.edu> References: <3446E938.62CF@dfwmm.net> <344BDB1E.28C7@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) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.programming.sound:101 scee.yaroze.programming.sound:42 Stan Weaver wrote: > > Mr. Dave Krampitz wrote: > > 2. Why is the MIDI file distorted so badly by SMF2SEQ/SEQPLAY or am I > > doing something wrong? > > > 2) The MIDI file should not be distorted at all. What I think may be > the problem is that you're not specifying the appropriate programs at > the beginning of each track (i.e. program change ##). I'm assuming that > you're using the General MIDI VAB provided with NY. Is this true? If > you look at my posting of 6/18/97 titled, "Re:STD0 Sound Map", you > will see a list of all of the programs in the GM VAB. I have this problem as well. I've downloaded *many* MIDI files from the various MIDI sites on the Internet, played them on my PC and they sounded great! Then, I convert them using the Net Yaroze tools, and download them and play them on the NY, and they sound *terrible*. I understand there is some kind of conversion you need to do, somehow remapping the drum track differently. There is an old post here that breifly describes what needs to be done. I used to be really into MIDI, but now-a-days, I'd much prefer to spend the time programming rather than hand-transcribing drum tracks. Bleh. Does anyone have a tool (A nice DOS command line tool!??!) that automagically does *all* the needed conversion of the original .MID file into NY formats? Ed Federmeyer