Music Roll Archive Format by Wayne Stahnke
By Robbie Rhodes
Wayne Stahnke has offered his disk file format to everybody, as a recommended format for storing edited synchronous music roll data. It is suitable for perforator control, and has these desirable features:
It handles 240 channels, "wide enough" for the largest organ rolls.
It handles arbitrary ascii text, for saving important parameters, etc.
The method of encoding "delta-time" (actually x-axis distance)
accommodates unlimited values.
Note that the event durations in both the .WEB and .MID files are for perforator control. If you want to hear the true durations when you play the file with your synthesizer, you should extend the durations according to the height of the holes in the tracker bar. For the typical tracker bar of 0.040 to 0.050 inch height, Richard Tonnesen assumes a truncation/extension constant of 3.5 steps at 45 steps per inch.
BARNEYG.ZIP contains these files created by Wayne:
2269.ANN 11-17-95
2269.MID 12-27-95
2269.WEB 06-29-95
ROLLFILE.C 12-05-95 C source file
and also these new files created by me:
2269A.ANN 12-28-95 with Addendum
2269A.LST 12-28-95 Listing of 2269A.MID
2269A.MID 12-28-95 Lyrics added by Rob
Comments from everybody are invited. Enjoy the music, too!
-- Robbie Rhodes
attached: Binhex4 >> BARNEYG.ZIP
P.S. Jody, the attached file is rather large -- perhaps you should put
it in the FTP directory for down-loading. -- Robbie}
[ Robbie, I'll put the files in the FTP area in
[ the /pub/automatic-music/misc area
[ Jody |
(Message sent Fri 29 Dec 1995, 04:00:58 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.) |
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