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- Congratulations!!! You are now the once-proud owner of an ASCII to MIDI
- tranformation utility! ASCIIMID takes any DOS text file and outputs a
- corresponding Standard MIDI File 0, according to a few simple rules: Any
- characters between ASCII codes 32 and 128 are mapped to MIDI note numbers
- between 0 and 96. Any code falling outside of this range is interpreted
- as a rest. Each note and rest occupies a 16th note. The velocities for
- each note are randomly generated.
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- Even though it's designed for text files, ASCIIMID will work on any DOS
- file type. For example, typing ASCIIMID ASCIIMID.EXE ASCIIMID.MID will
- make a .MID file out of ASCIIMID's executable! This results in a rather
- lengthy composition - around 20 minutes at 120bpm - and sounds best with
- a lingering bell sort of timbre (vibraphone is nice).
-
- This is just one example of the compositional tools that my friend Peter
- Kreutlein and I (collectively known as the Crimson Twins) use in creating
- our music. If you'd like to hear some of our tunes, download CTSONGS.ZIP
- from GEnie's MIDI Software Library (section 3, MIDIFILES - jazz, world,
- folk, other) or CTSONG.ZIP from CompuServe's MIDI Music Forum (library 10).
-
- If you have any ideas or comments, please write to Crimson Twins, c/o Randy
- Stack, 6222 Brookhill Circle, Orlando, Florida 32810...and if you compose
- anything around ASCIIMID's output, we'd like to hear it! Enjoy...Randy!
-