Re: Bassoon piano etc.

Hi Joseph,

Here is a piano bassoon:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robertwalker/fts/piano_bassoon_with_ocarina_glock.mid
Playing with an ocarina glockenspiel.

Here is a bassoon piano:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robertwalker/fts/bassoon_piano.mid
It sounds okay in Windows Media Player, but for some reason the
Quick Time plug in with Netscape plays some well out of tune partials
here and there, which completely spoil the effect.

I'm not sure yet why that is, or why it should make a difference
which MIDI program one uses to play it, on the same soundcard
and MIDI port. (Anyone got any ideas???)

The bassoon piano sounds okay on its own, but doesn't mix at all
well with other melodic voices, so this clip has it just as a solo.

While the piano bassoon is a reasonable mixer, as you can hear.

I've added an "Open partials" button, which makes this
sort of thing even easier to do.

It reads the partials from the partials analysis program
for bell sounds from:
http://www.oakcroft13.fsnet.co.uk/index.htm

It is really nice. You can even ask it to reconstruct
the wave from the partials, so you can listen and
hear what it is like. Really easy to use and clearly
explained.

I'm sure you can do this and much more by editing
the waves directly.

But here, I'm just exploring the boundaries of what one can
do with it in MIDI.

If really keen to try it out, or look at what I'm doing,
with the Voices | Custom Voices | Edit Custom Melodic voices window,
see
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robertwalker/fts_beta_preview/fts_109_beta_preview.exe
(just the .exe file)

but may be better to wait until I've got it ready properly, got all the
buttons and check boxes working as they should, and sorted out all the bugs.

Robert

Robert Walker wrote:

> Here is a bassoon piano:
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robertwalker/fts/bassoon_piano.mid
> It sounds okay in Windows Media Player, but for some reason the
> Quick Time plug in with Netscape plays some well out of tune
partials
> here and there, which completely spoil the effect.
>
> I'm not sure yet why that is, or why it should make a difference
> which MIDI program one uses to play it, on the same soundcard
> and MIDI port. (Anyone got any ideas???)

Are you sure they're using the same MIDI port? Last I remember,
QuickTime used its own soft synth. Winamp does too, unless the
SoundBlaster FM synth is a lot better than I remember it ...

Graham