About MIDICraft Music and Freelance Compositions and Arrangements MIDICraft is run by two Amiga musicians, lyricists and composers, who also happen to be brothers, Kevan R.Craft and Gareth R.Craft. As brothers, we have been producing music on the Amiga computer platform since 1992, although we have both been in various gigging and recording bands both at college and on the semi-professional scene. (Gareth has been in a full 9 piece Jazz band, arranged brass sections and has done session work for some recording artists. My early efforts have been in film and television studying to be a director and I have made about 10 projects as writer/director and have edited some unbroadcasted T.V programmes.) Initially, the Music-X V1.1 seqencing program was employed to compose music utilising the Amiga, MIDI and sythesizers. We then began to contribute to the Norwegian based music disk magazine called 'AM/FM - Amiga Musicians Freeware Magazine', edited and published by Bjørn A.Lynne. We contributed a considerable amount of written articles on most things concerning MIDI, reviewed other Amiga musicians recording projects and produced a recent glowing review of Bjørn A.Lynne's 'Montage' CD. We have also reviewed Amiga software direct from the publisher, OctaMED and the AMFC music convertor from RBF Software and the Music-X 2.0 and Notator-X from Software Business, here in the U.K. Moreover, as musicians and writers employing the Amiga computer, we offered help and assistance to the editorial team of the disk magazine called 'Total Irrelevance' produced by the Official MED Users Group and offered our services with writing articles and providing help with Teijo Kinunnen's OctaMED Professional and MIDI to readers of the magazine. We have also offered assistance as ßeta testers for OctaMED Professional V5.0 hopefully offering Teijo and Ray with some positive ideas concerning the future development of Teijo's amazing music program.. MIDICraft music emerged after both Gareth and I realised that we had amassed quite a lot of Music-X cover scores during our 4 years with using Music-X and rather than sell these at extortionate prices we decided to allow other users access to this music as volume sets for an inexpensive fee as a small payment for our efforts in producing the Music-X and MIDI scores contained within the growing MIDICraft Volume series. As musicians, composers and lyricists, we have over the years, compiled a catalogue of original music and songs which we decided to record together using the Amiga and the new Music-X V2.0 MIDI Sequencer. The result is our own penned and produced CD Album entitled 'A Drop in the Ocean' containing 12 tracks, 10 songs and 2 instrumentals. As freelance musicians and composers, both Gareth and myself are available to write and record and master on digital media (DAT), here in our recording studio either instrumental or lyric based songs for either Film, T.V, Radio, The Theatre, Games and CD ROM developers on any platform. We are capable of utilising vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar besides the usual Synthesized sounds of drums, strings, brass and synths etc via MIDI sequencing. The complete work can be provided on DAT tape, ready and shipped to the prospective client.. If you require a composition fully scored and LASER printed as a hardcopy for publishing purposes then with Notator-X this can also be arranged. We are also able to produce, as part of a package, full design and print ready-artwork (positive film) for Cassette/CD label, Booklets and inlay cards for mass productions purposes.. For more information contact:-) MIDICraft Compositions and Arrangements Kevan R.Craft and Gareth R.Craft 12 Mount Road Halton Runcorn Cheshire. WA7 2BH. England. U.K. Tel: +44 0928 563762 You'll find information in this section which lists the 3 MIDICraft Volumes which are budget priced and currently available for Music-X and MIDI for the Amiga, Atari and PC computers and most disk based synthesizers and sequencers. MIDICraft Volumes currently available MIDICraft Volume #1 (Music-X and MIDI Files format 1) Contains 50 fully scored songs and instrumentals with ASCII docs and Song Lyrics. MIDICraft Volume #2 for KEYS (Music-X and MIDI Files format 1) Contains 50 Piano and Organ songs and scores for most genre styles with ASCII docs and Song Lyrics. MIDICraft Dynamite Drums Vol #1 (Music-X and MIDI Files format 1) Contains over 250 Drum patterns, intros, fills and ending in most musical drum styles. Coming soon... -------------- MIDICraft Volume #3 (Music-X and MIDI Files format 1) Contains 50 fully scored songs and instrumentals with ASCII docs and Song Lyrics... MIDICraft Dynamite Drums Vol2 # (Music-X and MIDI Files format 1) Contains over 300 Drum patterns, intros, fills and ending in most musical drum styles.. MIDICraft Bits and Pieces (Music-X and MIDI Files format 1) Contains 700 clips of a multitude of Bits and pieces files for Music-X and MIDI to aid sequence composition and arrangement..