Re: True Midi & Soundsmith/MOD composer

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <2ifije$hum@hub.ucsb.edu> uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric Shepherd) writes:
>I would pay big bucks for a program that you could use to lay out
>sheet-music and have it create a MIDIsynth sequence.

As long as I'm taunting people about in-development things, I'm working on
something to make MIDIsynth irrelevant :)

Planned feature list:

- Plays Type 0 or Type 1 MIDI (.MID) files directly, no conversion needed.
- 10 voice polyphony if I support panning, 15 otherwise (MSynth is 7 :)
- Responds to General MIDI or Roland MT-32 program changes, so 95% of MIDI
  files from ftp, America Online's PC section, etc will work as-is.
- Some kind of ability to remap instruments so you can emulate additional
  synthesizers, sound modules, and drum machines.
- Full General MIDI controller compliance (pitch&modulation wheels, etc).
- Uses only the GS Ensoniq chip!
- Swaps samples so large high-sampling-rate instruments can be used.
- Some kind of MIDI file editing too, and maybe even a notation-based
  editor.  Probably not in the first version though :)

Since MIDI is pretty much taking over on other machines (including the Amiga,
PC, and Mac), this kind of player is important (the PC only can do this with
the Gravis card, for instance :)
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