A-Parrot-Tefe
By George Bogatko
ALL:
This is Stephen Kent Goodman's latest. It's called "A-Parrot-Tefe". He did the composing work, and I tried my best to make it sound like a "dream" band organ. (Dream in that it has an impossible chromatic scale).
A few warnings. You'll need a real General (GS) MIDI synth to play this. Plain FM synthesis won't sound that good. It was done on an AWE32 PC synth, and should sound good on most Roland gear. Have one that has at least 30 voice polyphony. Another problem that crops up is on PC programs that use the "MidiMapper." If the "MidiMapper" has been set to the "extended" doo-hicky, then you'll only hear the first 10 tracks. The rest are thrown in the tank. If you don't hear some really pronounced bass parts, that's whats happening. Go into Control Panel->MidiMapper and try another setting, such as ALL, or at least be sure that at least 13 tracks are available.
Another thing is to be sure and have your synth set up as a GS MIDI, not a GM MIDI. I used the "orchestral drum set" in this, and that only works on GS MIDI. If the percussion sounds like a rock drummer, that's what's happening. The Bass Drum should sound like a big tubby bass drum.
I believe this will appear on the AMD ftp site, and also on John Roaches Ragtimers web page: "http://users.aol.com/johnroache/private/home.html".
Hope you like it!
George Bogatko
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[ I'll put the file in the FTP archive as:
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[ ftp://ftp.foxtail.com/pub/automatic-music/misc/aparrot.zip
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[ I'm willing to send it out as an attachment to those who
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[ Thanks
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