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- From: Slite@freenet.hut.fi (Sami Leino)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: MIDI Speed
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 09:55:40 GMT
- Organization: FAK
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- In article <1996Apr10.210826.10887@scala.scala.com>, dave.haynie@scala.com
- says...
- >
- >What program are you playing that MIDI with? It's possible to get
- >fine MIDI performance from an A500, it's also possible to royally
- >screw it up.
- >
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- I'm using MidiPlay by Janne Syvaniemi (v2.63?) to play General Midi-tunes,
- and MED by Teijo Kinnunen to edit my own music. Timing errors occur in
- both cases. I think MED doesn't use midi.library, and MidiPlay uses it's
- own Midiplay.library and maybe midi.library too. They both are included in
- the MidiPlay package. With MidiPlay there comes also a small utility called
- 'tinymidiplay', which does not have a GUI and uses CIA for timing. That's why
- it feels so strange, because CIA should be exact in timing issues and some
- tunes that play badly on MidiPlay play also badly in Tinymidiplay. With
- Midiplay, also the mouse-pointer stops sometimes when playing general Midi-
- songs (for example Shaft.mid).
-
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- >You should make absolutely sure the problem is one of playback. If
- >you're manually sequencing stuff and it comes out wrong, that's a
- >given. But if you're playing everything, it may not be obvious which
- >is the fault. A few hand sequenced bars with timing dead-on should let
- >you know about this. Or some careful examination of the time stamp on
- >various MIDI events (most sequencers have an events view which lets
- >you look at this stuff in detail).
- >
-
- The problem is in the playback indeed. I enter the notes manually in
- the tracker or sequencer, and don't use external keyboard to play notes in.
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- Thank you for your support. I'm looking forward to your future work.
- I really hope your opinions regarding to the PowerAmiga will be
- notified at the Amiga Technologies.
-
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- Sami Leino, Slite@freenet,hut.fi
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