Re: Project Retune: 2nd phase

> [John A. deLaubenfels, TD 313.16]
>
> I've just posted new, improved retunings of Beethoven's
> Pathetique Sonata on my web site at
> http://www.idcomm.com/personal/jadl .
> Many of the "glitches" in the original have been detected
> and removed

John,

I don't know what's happening, but your retuned versions
of both this Beethoven piece and the MIDI sequences of my
piano pieces, sound nothing like they're supposed to!
Apparently, there's something very wrong with the Pitch
Wheel settings as they're being played on my system.
Any ideas?

(BTW, thanks for retuning my pieces!d If I can get them to
sound correctly, as they apparently do on your system, maybe
I'll ask you to retune my whole catalog of 12-eq compositions!)

-monz

Joseph L. Monzo Philadelphia monz@juno.com
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[me, TD 313.16]>
>> I've just posted new, improved retunings of Beethoven's Pathetique
>> Sonata on my web site at> http://www.idcomm.com/personal/jadl .
>> Many of the "glitches" in the original have been detected and
>> removed.

[Joe Monzo, TD 317.1:]
> I don't know what's happening, but your retuned versions
> of both this Beethoven piece and the MIDI sequences of my
> piano pieces, sound nothing like they're supposed to!
> Apparently, there's something very wrong with the Pitch
> Wheel settings as they're being played on my system. Any ideas?

Dang! It's gotta be the pitch bend range, which is usually +/- 2
semitones. You are playing on a General Midi compliant synth or sound
card, yes?

I've just put together a small midi file to help diagnost your bend
range; I'll put it up on my web site and e-mail you a copy as well.

I've got some doc that claims to give the General Midi sequence to
change the bend range. The notebook computer I have access to at work
doesn't respond to this; it stays locked in +/- 2 semitones. I'll test
it at home tonight. The supposed sequence, in hex, is:

B0 65 00 (Registered Parameter Number, course)
B0 64 00 (Registered Parameter Number, fine)

B0 06 02 (data entry slider, high bits (coarse))
B0 26 00 (data entry slider, low bits (fine))

(repeat for each channel). It wouldn't be a bad idea to send a GM
enable sequence as well, upstream of everything else:

F0 7E 7F 09 01 F7 (GM enable)

I'll make a midi file to send all this out as well.

I hope we can get this fixed, or else I may have to take John ffitch's
advice and switch to Csound! If this works, I'll encorporate the extra
code into my retuning program, hopefully saving others the same problem!

Alternatively, if your synth is locked into some other bend range, I
could prepare special versions of any sequences tailored for that bend
range.

JdL