Re: True Midi & Soundsmith/MOD composer

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <CKI9EI.yw@cup.hp.com> tribby@cup.hp.com (Dave Tribby) writes:
>Ian Schmidt (irsman@iastate.edu) wrote:

>MIDI Synth files are much larger compared to the original MIDI, so
>this feature alone would save sevaral megabytes on my hard disk!

Yes, the format of MIDIsynth is a tad braindead in terms of both size and CPU
time, but it worked at the time :)

>There's a lot of information in MIDI files that MIDI Synth doesn't
>use! Will you have file formats equivalent to MIDI Synth's instrument
>and wavebank files? It sure would be nice to load individual
>instruments rather than having to choose them in groups.

Yes; instrument banks will be "synthesizers" where you map an instrument to
one or more of the 127 program numbers for that synthesizer.  In this way, it
can easily be tweeked to emulate any of the popular synths (I'll ship General
MIDI, Roland MT-32, and Roland D-5 'synthesizers' with it, since I have
program maps for those.  I intend to make it easy to add and swap more :)

>An impressive feature list, to be sure. Keep us updated on progress.

Sure will.  
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