[Coco] ultimuse, midi, non standard keyboards

[Brian Blake]

HI Aaron,

Here's Mike Knudsen's (author of Ultimuse) web site. Maybe you could contact
him and find out what you need to know...

http://83.105.111.87/mjknudsen/

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been exploring the many MIDI files available for Ultimuse and
> while some sound great, a lot seem to be set up for one particular
> (non General MIDI) device.  This leads to some pretty strange sounding
> songs in some cases.
>
> I am new to the world of CoCo MIDI, are there tools for
> converting/adapting the voices from one standard to another?  I notice
> the ume files will usually explain what keyboard they are set up for,
> so far I've seen Yamaha PSS-480, Yamaha PSR-500, Casio CPS-101, Casio
> MT-240 and maybe some others.
>
> I can certainly add a filter mode to DriveWire to map each model's
> voices into a general midi layout in real time, but before I possibly
> re-invent this wheel, I was wondering if this is a problem that is
> already solved some other way?  I don't know much about Ultimuse yet
> but it seems like a powerful program, maybe there is an option to do
> this kind of thing somewhere I haven't found yet?
>
> -Aaron
>
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