[Coco] Bug in Umuse3-9.111 maybe earlier

[Bill Pierce]

I assume you're talking about outputting an actual .mid file from umuse and not "playing" it. Then transferring it to linux to play in a linux player?
If this is the case, Mike only implements a very small portion of the midi spec in his .mid output. So there maybe some problems when exporting to other software, but most things can be fixed.

As for changing things to GM, as long as you know the original song's instruments, the change is easy unless it's some off the wall, unusual sound. I have attached a list of the GM instruments. You can also do this in umuse itself in the instrument list.

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Dec 16, 2011 10:09 am
Subject: [Coco] Bug in Umuse3-9.111 maybe earlier


Greetings all;
Maybe some of you Umuse users out there will find this helpful.
Playing around with the newest Umuse3 stuffs, and looking to see if I could 
aybe use rosegarden to edit the instruments, making some of my ancient 
ume files into something resembling General Midi stuff, I found that when 
 had UMusE3 output, from its .ume file input, a .mid output, shipped it up 
o this box & play was at about 1% of normal speed when played in 
osegarden, but sent straight to the synth input of my Audigy2 card, it 
ounded normal speed.
Asking around on the linux-audio-user mailing list, it was suggested that 
erhaps a program called midicomp might be useful.  It can translate a .mid 
ile into human readable form, or it can translate that text input back 
nto .mid files.
The UMusE3 .mid files contain several thousand lines of the format of
eqnum Arb f8  that are not in any of the other, non-umuse3 generated .mid 
iles I have collected.  So I built a filter using
 midicomp filename.mid|grep -v Arb|filename.asc
then
 midicomp -c filename.asc >Filename.mid
Note that on linux filename.mid and Filename.mid are 2 separate files so 
here is no name clash.
And rosegarden is happy, so all I need to do now is figure out the new GM 
nstruments to use.

o get midicomp, use git clone as shown at
https://github.com/markc/midicomp>
Searching google for midicomp will get you an older version 0.4, this is 
.6 that I used, it has been moved to a 'git' repository.
Have fun with your old ume files. :)
Cheers, Gene
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 GM Instrument Definition V1.00
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Some synths use base 1 instead of 0 in that case add 1 to all program numbers
.Patch Names

[General MIDI]
0=Acoustic Grand Piano
1=Bright Acoustic Piano
2=Electric Grand Piano
3=Honky-tonk Piano
4=Rhodes Piano
5=Chorused Piano
6=Harpsichord
7=Clavinet
8=Celesta
9=Glockenspiel
10=Music Box
11=Vibraphone
12=Marimba
13=Xylophone
14=Tubular Bells
15=Dulcimer
16=Hammond Organ
17=Percussive Organ
18=Rock Organ
19=Church Organ
20=Reed Organ
21=Accordion
22=Harmonica
23=Tango Accordion
24=Acoustic Guitar (nylon)
25=Acoustic Guitar (steel)
26=Electric Guitar (jazz)
27=Electric Guitar (clean)
28=Electric Guitar (muted)
29=Overdriven Guitar
30=Distortion Guitar
31=Guitar Harmonics
32=Acoustic Bass
33=Electric Bass (finger)
34=Electric Bass (pick)
35=Fretless Bass
36=Slap Bass 1
37=Slap Bass 2
38=Synth Bass 1
39=Synth Bass 2
40=Violin
41=Viola
42=Cello
43=Contrabass
44=Tremolo Strings
45=Pizzicato Strings
46=Orchestral Harp
47=Timpani
48=String Ensemble 1
49=String Ensemble 2
50=SynthStrings 1
51=SynthStrings 2
52=Choir Aahs
53=Voice Oohs
54=Synth Voice
55=Orchestra Hit
56=Trumpet
57=Trombone
58=Tuba
59=Muted Trumpet
60=French Horn
61=Brass Section
62=Synth Brass 1
63=Synth Brass 2
64=Soprano Sax
65=Alto Sax
66=Tenor Sax
67=Baritone Sax
68=Oboe
69=English Horn
70=Bassoon
71=Clarinet
72=Piccolo
73=Flute
74=Recorder
75=Pan Flute
76=Bottle Blow
77=Shakuhachi
78=Whistle
79=Ocarina
80=Lead 1 (square)
81=Lead 2 (sawtooth)
82=Lead 3 (calliope lead)
83=Lead 4 (chiff lead)
84=Lead 5 (charang)
85=Lead 6 (voice)
86=Lead 7 (fifths)
87=Lead 8 (bass + lead)
88=Pad 1 (new age)
89=Pad 2 (warm)
90=Pad 3 (polysynth)
91=Pad 4 (choir)
92=Pad 5 (bowed)
93=Pad 6 (metallic)
94=Pad 7 (halo)
95=Pad 8 (sweep)
96=FX 1 (rain)
97=FX 2 (soundtrack)
98=FX 3 (crystal)
99=FX 4 (atmosphere)
100=FX 5 (brightness)
101=FX 6 (goblins)
102=FX 7 (echoes)
103=FX 8 (sci-fi)
104=Sitar
105=Banjo
106=Shamisen
107=Koto
108=Kalimba
109=Bagpipe
110=Fiddle
111=Shanai
112=Tinkle Bell
113=Agogo
114=Steel Drums
115=Woodblock
116=Taiko Drum
117=Melodic Tom
118=Synth Drum
119=Reverse Cymbal
120=Guitar Fret Noise
121=Breath Noise
122=Seashore
123=Bird Tweet
124=Telephone Ring
125=Helicopter
126=Applause
127=Gunshot

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Patch 128 is the standard GM drumset. Each drum is defined by a single key #
Usually played on midi channel 10 

[General MIDI Drums]
35=Acoustic Bass Drum
36=Bass Drum 1
37=Side Stick
38=Acoustic Snare
39=Hand Clap
40=Electric Snare
41=Low Floor Tom
42=Close Hi-Hat
43=High Floor Tom
44=Pedal Hi-Hat
45=Low Tom
46=Open Hi-Hat
47=Low-Mid Tom
48=Hi-Mid Tom
49=Crash Cymbal 1
50=High Tom
51=Ride Cymbal 1
52=Chinese Cymbal
53=Ride Bell
54=Tambourine
55=Splash Cymbal
56=Cowbell
57=Crash Cymbal 2
58=Vibraslap
59=Ride Cymbal 2
60=Hi Bongo
61=Low Bongo
62=Mute Hi Conga
63=Open Hi Conga
64=Low Conga
65=High Timbale
66=Low Timbale
67=High Agogo
68=Low Agogo
69=Cabasa
70=Maracas
71=Short Whistle
72=Long Whistle
73=Short Guiro
74=Long Guiro
75=Claves
76=Hi Wood Block
77=Low Wood Block
78=Mute Cuica
79=Open Cuica
80=Mute Triangle
81=Open Triangle