not so jolly...
Mar. 8th, 2005 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Ha! I have conquered the music editing/sheet-music printing/recording software!
No, I haven't. But I am able to print out sheet music from MIDI files, and can selectively print out the music for certain instruments in a piece and such.
But I can't hear any MIDI files though I can hear my regular mp3s and such. Hmmm.
Ugh, this is being a bit more frustrating than expected. Maybe clicking on more random buttons will help...
No, I haven't. But I am able to print out sheet music from MIDI files, and can selectively print out the music for certain instruments in a piece and such.
But I can't hear any MIDI files though I can hear my regular mp3s and such. Hmmm.
Ugh, this is being a bit more frustrating than expected. Maybe clicking on more random buttons will help...
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Date: 2005-03-09 06:01 am (UTC)On a PC, if you go to Start/ Control Panel/ Sounds Speech and Audio Devices/ Sounds and Audio Devices, it should show you exactly what card you have in the Volume tab with a little icon next to it.
I don't know what to do on a Mac as I haven't had one since 1996.
What software are you using? I have Midi Studio 6. I can program into it just fine, but I can't for my life get it to record anything I play on my piano keyboard. I finally just moved the PK across the room to get it out of the way. I am not as serious as you, so I gave up rather quickly, LOL.
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Date: 2005-03-12 02:03 am (UTC)I have Cakewalk Music Creator 2. I also can program without any trouble, but as I mentioned it's impossible to actually hear what I'm tinkering around with. I don't have a MIDI keyboard but I could probably borrow one sometime in the future. Luckily I can print out music from the MIDI file which is the most important part. At the moment I'm trying to get a medley of classical music pieces that appeared in the Prisoner to be performed by the bell chime group that I lead. So far I've gotten the Radetsky March and the title theme :)
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Date: 2005-03-14 02:56 pm (UTC)But quite beautiful, like church bells in the distance....
Some groups are so good it sounds like a waterfall.
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Date: 2005-03-17 05:50 am (UTC)The nice thing about bell ringing is that you can't really practice on your own time; it's mostly group coordination that you need to get down.
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Date: 2005-03-17 06:46 am (UTC)Change ringing starts with a scale, and then the notes switch according to a pre-established pattern. For the simplest one, you have 4 people play a scale, then you trade one bell with each person next to you and play up the line again, over and over until you get your bells back. But the professionals can make it sound like that without any music in front of them just by counting or using a chart of numbers. It's crazy!
That part was tough.
So was trading bells on the cheating version without hitting anyone else's bells, lol.
Anyway, here's an intro which is sorta cool:
http://www.nagcr.org/pamphlet.html
Ah! Here I am!
Date: 2005-03-17 06:49 am (UTC)