[Coco] Utilmuse 3 Manual

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 04:01:18 PM Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> fwiw, if you have drivewire 4, you can play midi from coco to pc very
> easily.  for examples see:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjaHLXz0co
> 
> or
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g721tj7VnJs
> 
> dw4 has it's own software synth that supports loading soundfont or dls
> files, or can pass through to your soundcard's synth if it has one, or
> can pass through to an external midi device if you have one of those.
> choosing where the midi goes is as simple as clicking on the device in
> a menu.
> 
> another unique feature is real time translation between instrument
> mappings.  this is useful because lots of the ume files around are
> encoded for specific synths that you may not have, especially the
> yamaha pss480 (actually used to have one of those).
> 
> even though i don't have a pss480, or a casio 540, etc.. I can listen
> to songs encoded for them on my general midi hardware by just choosing
> which synth I want to translate for in a drop down menu.  dw4 then
> rewrites all instrument changes sent to the closest thing general midi
> offers.  the end result is usually pretty good.  the translation
> profiles are plain text and you can edit them or add your own.
> 
> -Aaron

Thanks Aaron, now I have something to do when things slow down.

Cheers, Gene
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