On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 3:25 am, The Other wrote: > John Richard Smith wrote: > > Rezound > > ======= > > > > I to, am impressed with it. It looks the think I'm looking for . > > Sorry to say I don't think it handles these funny yamaha sound > > files, which are all .mid files. > > At any rate I cannot seem toget any sense out of the sound > > generated, maybe wrong though, as it's early days and I'm unsure of > > the controls. > > > > John > > Hello John, > > It's been years since I looked at a Yamaha MIDI file, but if memory > serves, Yamaha was not using standard MIDI instruments. > > By that I mean Instrument #1 in a standard MIDI file should be an > Acoustic Piano, or Piano 1. Yamaha MIDI files may have Instrument > #1 set to Trumpet, or something different that Acoustic Piano. > > To get the Yamaha MIDI files sounding correctly, all you may need to > do is remap the Yamaha Instrument patches to Standard Midi > Instruments patches in the Rezound editor. > > For example. Suppose Yamaha is using Track 1 as a Trumpet. In > Rezound, you would set Track 1 to the Standard Midi instrument patch > for Trumpet, which is #57 on an Instrument set that is numbered 1 to > 128. The Trumpet would be patch #56 on a Instrument set that is > numbered 0 to 127. (Be aware of these two numbering schemes for > Standard MIDI files. If the patch you've specified still sounds like > the wrong instrument, then increase or decrease the patch number > you're using by 1 to get to the correct patch.) > > Now when Rezound plays Track 1, you should hear a Trumpet playing. > > I've not used Rezound, but this is a generic concept when working > with MIDI files. This is also how you can reorchestrate a MIDI > piece. If you don't like an Acoustic Piano playing on a Track, > change the Instrument Patch to something else; such as a Harpsichord > or Organ. > > Or use a different SoundFont to replace a poor sounding Acoustic > Piano with a better sounding Grand Piano. When you're working with > MIDI, you have great control over the final sound of the piece. > > Regards, > The Other
IIRC, the article I posted a link to on the Mandrake site has a link to a Yamaha soundfont. (and instructions for installing it.) -- Richard Urwin
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