Re: MIDI files on IIgs?

[aw133@lafn.org (James Poore)]

In a previous article, mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune) says:

>In article <29APR199717472891@vax2.concordia.ca>, spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>>thought it would (the piano sounds 100% like the real thing, so you
>>really would have no reason to want another unless someone invents a
>>new kind of piano in real life ;)
>
>There already are multiple types of pianos.  The same piano (no-matter how 
>good it sounds) can't be used for EVERY piano song out there.  One song may 
>call for a Steinway, another may call for a simple Yamaha upright.  See my 
>point? I use about 15 different pianos while writing (all sound nearly 100% 
>like their respective original)
>
>Believe me, it's obvious.  I've used synths long enough now I can usually pick 
>out the make and model just by listening to the show.  Sure they sound good, 
>and there's nothing wrong with it.  But it's still obvious (to me at least).  
>
>I still think the best portable music format is one that includes the sample 
>data (S3M) thereby giving the author TOTAL control.  A lot of people have 
>asked me to post MIDI files of my work, and there's no way I'm going to, 
>because the patches I use don't exsist in the GM spec.  Even if they did, 
>they'd be different on everybody's synth, which blows accurate EQ/mixing out 
>the window.  
>
Well, everybody's taste is his/her own.  Of all the midi files I have 
converted to GS formats, I make them sound like "I" want them to sound.
This is not in any way dumping on the original author or arranger, its 
just my $ .02 in the sound dept.  If the particular 'patch' isnt 
availiable in a .bnk file, I bring out waveLAB and do some tweaking.
I also take instruments and mix & match from different .bnk and .wav files.
Most of my work is for my own pleasure and sometimes to show off the 
sound qualities of my GS.  Even if the GS is up to par by todays standards,
with some good eq'ing and a touch of reverb here and there or some other 
effects, the GS can hold its own.

Jim
 
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