Re: Titanic synthlab seq posted to comp.binaries.apple2

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>I posted the Titanic movie theme, My Heart Will Go On, to cba2.
>It sounds great!  It is a synthlab rendition of the theme...

    Just a couple of suggestions: It would be more efficient
(space wise) if you did not include the instrument bank/wave
within the archive. The only time it's necessary is if you
happen to create a new set of instrument patches or modify
an existing one, since obviously, no one else would have them.
Also, I should point out renaming existing banks _without_
making any changes shouldn't be done (that practice just
causes confusion when there are duplicate MIDIsynth bank/
waves circulating).

    Finally, I don't like to usually criticize, but I think 
you may find the conversion more worthwhile if you reassign 
the instrument mapping in the sequence. If you just run it
through MIDISurgeon, your going to get a random assignment
of instruments to each track (rarely does that ever sound
good ;). For example, "Synth-Lead" got assigned the vocals
of the song, which would probably be my last choice for
that track. (Hmm, speaking of vocals, I once met the
now-famous woman who sang the Titanic song. Well, that
is, we rode in the same elevator. :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca