mts-capable midi player

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~HB9T-KTD/music/mus13e.html

"
GS Roland VSC-88H ok
XG Yamaha S-YG20 fail
XG Yamaha MU-80 ok
"

It's unclear if any of these are still made. I did find
this, however...

http://www.edirol.com/products/info/vscmp1.html

...which is apparently $50 around the way.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:
> http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~HB9T-KTD/music/mus13e.html
>
> "
> GS Roland VSC-88H ok
> XG Yamaha S-YG20 fail
> XG Yamaha MU-80 ok
> "
>
> It's unclear if any of these are still made. I did find
> this, however...
>
> http://www.edirol.com/products/info/vscmp1.html
>
> ...which is apparently $50 around the way.

Wow! Thanks, Carl. Now let me see if I can get Audio Compositor to
handle realime MTS; I think Timidity does but AC is better when you
can get the cranky thing to work.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:

> http://www.edirol.com/products/info/vscmp1.html
>
> ...which is apparently $50 around the way.

If this product really does render midi files, which is what they
seem to be saying, the microtonal synth page should be updated.
Unless they've changed things, it could get you to a cent of accuracy.

>> http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~HB9T-KTD/music/mus13e.html
>>
>> "
>> GS Roland VSC-88H ok
>> XG Yamaha S-YG20 fail
>> XG Yamaha MU-80 ok
>> "
>>
>> It's unclear if any of these are still made. I did find
>> this, however...
>>
>> http://www.edirol.com/products/info/vscmp1.html
>>
>> ...which is apparently $50 around the way.
>
>Wow! Thanks, Carl. Now let me see if I can get Audio Compositor to
>handle realime MTS; I think Timidity does but AC is better when you
>can get the cranky thing to work.

I used an early version of the Roland (now Edirol) VSC thingy,
which came bundled with the Justonic Pitch Palette. It didn't
sound like much on a Pentium 166 non-MMX with 32MB of RAM. And
it doesn't render to wave and I didn't have any way of capturing
the wave bus to a file, so I had to run it analog to the
SoundBlaster (with their famed 75db. S/N ratio) on my friend's
machine to record the sound demos which I posted here in 1997 in
au format, and which will appear again on my website in mp3 format,
if and when I ever get it out the door.

-Carl

>> http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~HB9T-KTD/music/mus13e.html
>>
>> "
>> GS Roland VSC-88H ok
>> XG Yamaha S-YG20 fail
>> XG Yamaha MU-80 ok
>> "
>>
>> It's unclear if any of these are still made. I did find
>> this, however...
>>
>> http://www.edirol.com/products/info/vscmp1.html
>>
>> ...which is apparently $50 around the way.
>
>Wow! Thanks, Carl. Now let me see if I can get Audio Compositor to
>handle realime MTS; I think Timidity does but AC is better when you
>can get the cranky thing to work.

Wait -- I knew I meant to say something useful in my last reply...

I can't get Timidity to do much of anything but stare at me. Any
chance somebody could do a for-dummies tutorial, preferrably one
that explains how to get it to load sf2 files. I know I'm being
stubborn but I absolutely refuse to use Gravis files after I've
spent my days and nights building an sf2 collection.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:

> I can't get Timidity to do much of anything but stare at me. Any
> chance somebody could do a for-dummies tutorial, preferrably one
> that explains how to get it to load sf2 files. I know I'm being
> stubborn but I absolutely refuse to use Gravis files after I've
> spent my days and nights building an sf2 collection.

Timidity does need documentation. A while back someone wanted to do
this, and he ended up looking at the binary to find out how. It turns
out to be really, really simple. Here is the timidity.cfg file I have
in my Timidity directory:

dir c:\music\timidity
soundfont "gene.sf2"

Here is an example batch file you can drag and drop midi files onto:

c:\music\timidity\timidity.exe -int -EFchorus=2, -EFreverb=1,63 -A60 -
s44100 -Ow %1

You change the above to where you've tucked Timidity away, and change
"gene.sf2" to whatever you like. I simply rename whatever font I want
to use "gene.sf2", put it in my Timidity directory, and then drag and
drop a midi file onto a .bat file like the above.

>> I can't get Timidity to do much of anything but stare at me. Any
>> chance somebody could do a for-dummies tutorial, preferrably one
>> that explains how to get it to load sf2 files. I know I'm being
>> stubborn but I absolutely refuse to use Gravis files after I've
>> spent my days and nights building an sf2 collection.
>
>Timidity does need documentation. A while back someone wanted to do
>this, and he ended up looking at the binary to find out how. It turns
>out to be really, really simple. Here is the timidity.cfg file I have
>in my Timidity directory:
>
>dir c:\music\timidity
>soundfont "gene.sf2"
>
>Here is an example batch file you can drag and drop midi files onto:
>
>c:\music\timidity\timidity.exe -int -EFchorus=2, -EFreverb=1,63 -A60 -
>s44100 -Ow %1

Thanks Gene! Just one question...

What are the allowed ranges for chorus and reverb?

0=off
1=?
2=?

-Carl