MUSIC-X MIDI-CONVERTER special for NON General MIDI keyboards: Assembly version 2.0 14 July 1993 by C.Soeters with DEVPAC3. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Note: ~~~~~ This version of MIDIConvert needs Kickstart 2.0 or higher and the reqtools.library for the requesters. In this archive are available: s (dir) Music-X_Conv2.cfg ; Default configuration-file (PSS79x) libs (dir) reqtools.library ; Copy this library to your sys:libs GM-DRUM.TXT ; General MIDI Drummap reference doc GM-PRG_1.TXT ; General MIDI Program reference doc1 GM-PRG_2.TXT ; General MIDI Program reference doc2 MIDIConvert.TXT ; The doc. you are reading now MIDIConvert20 ; The binary MIDIConvert V2.0 file General: ~~~~~~~~ The conversion utility delivered with the package MUSIC-X V1.0-V1.1 will convert Standard MIDI files to Performance files and back. But if these Standard MIDI files (.mid) contain percussion tracks, it is an awfull job to convert them for use with your NON-General-MIDI keyboard (selecting and changing the data), it costs a lot of time! Mostly the sequences / tracks for midichannel 10 or 16 are used for percussion/drum patterns. With Music-X you can take a quick look at the performance file, checking which midichannels are used for per- cussion/drum data. After that this program can convert your tracks for use with your keyboard. In this version it's also possible to convert the programchange-events. So all you have to do now is to read this doc.file carefully and check your synth's manual, to make a configurationfile (see below) for the best conversion capabilities. The config.file: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Before starting this program, you have to make your own configuration file which MUST be placed in the s: drawer of your booting device. The default configuration-file MUST be named: Music-X_conv2.cfg and you can make more than one config.file, which may have an own name, but with an .cfg extension; The above mentioned name is the default, which will be loaded automatically at initial start of this program. This configuration-file consists of several parameters / tables which will be used to convert the programchange-events and percussion-data of the Music-X tracks. For General-MIDI the key-values for the drummap are normally 27-87 (dec.), but values from 0-127 can be used and for the programchange table, values of the instruments are 01-128 decimal. Take a look in your Keyboard-manual for the values needed for this! An example configuration-file is available, there is a lot of infor- mation stored in remarks, see below. Comment-lines must start with a '*'=asterix. The example configuration-file is made for the YAMAHA PSS keyboards: PSS790 & PSS795 and with a little modification, it can be used for the PSS480, 580 and 780 as well. EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION-FILE s:Music-X_conv2.cfg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Music-X MIDI converter V2 config. 07-1993 * >> GENERAL MIDI to YAMAHA PSS 79x << * COMMENT-lines must start with an asterix! * 1-st para: default inputpath files-requester RAM: * 2-nd para: default outputpath files-requester RAM: * 3-th para: default files extension mask (#?.Seq|#?.Perf) * 4-th para: extra extention patched files pch * 5-th para: midichannel-flags (0=off 1=on) *<---drummap----> * 1111111 1111111 *12345678901234561234567890123456 00000000010000011111111110111110 * 6-th para: PERCUSSION-conversiontable (00-127) * number separation by commas * 00-09 PERCUSSION KEY VALUE 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 * 10-19 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 * 20-29 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,46,36,79 * 30-39 79,72,58,72,55,45,44,71,49,54 * 40-49 52,48,57,48,80,50,59,50,53,60 * 50-59 53,62,63,62,71,61,55,60,36,63 * 60-69 68,67,66,65,64,69,70,75,74,56 * 70-79 71,78,78,56,56,72,73,72,76,77 * 80-89 37,39,56,39,71,72,37,39,00,00 * 90-99 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 * 100-109 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 * 110-119 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 * 120-127 LAST PERCUSSION KEYS 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 * 7-th para: MIDI-PROGRAM conversiontable (01-128) * Number separation by commas. * 01-10 MIDI-PROGRAMS NUMBERS 04,04,04,26,06,55,05,31,07,33 * 11-20 25,08,09,60,08,09,02,28,29,03 * 21-30 50,32,23,102,73,34,13,69,71,70 * 31-40 14,122,39,15,80,81,40,40,59,87 * 41-50 68,11,12,36,11,66,38,67,42,42 * 51-60 52,110,97,95,96,91,16,17,85,45 * 61-70 18,93,01,83,102,19,103,103,22,88 * 71-80 22,20,104,21,89,48,113,112,92,89 * 81-90 100,109,114,61,118,96,122,39,65,08 * 91-100 96,65,110,60,09,08,33,96,33,96 * 101-110 96,96,96,65,37,35,37,74,35,22 * 111-120 11,35,25,67,10,67,67,67,67,67 * 121-128 LAST MIDI-PROGRAM NUMBERS 100,100,100,100,100,126,127,100 * 8-th para: RESERVED -------------------------------------------------------------------- Working with 'MIDI-Convert2.0': (Short explanation) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- GET (configuration file) gadget: When the program is started initially, the default configuration- file will be loaded automatically (s:Music-X_convert2.cfg). This may be your own config.file. There may be more config.files with their own names (the extension must be .cfg) which you can choose from. By pressing the 'GET' configurationfile gadget, a requester will appear showing the available config.files. Select a config- file (the selected file will be highlighted) and press OK, or after doubleclicking the file, it will be loaded and the program will be set accordingly. If an error occurs when loading the file, you will be notified by a requester. -- Drummap- and Programchange gadgets: With these gadgets you can enable or disable conversion of both Drummap and Program changes. (Default: both enabled, which causes the program to convert both, percussion-data in the selected Drummap midichannel(s) and Programchange-events in the selected Programchange midichannel(s)). -- Drummap- and Programchange- midichannel gadgets: Here you can enable or disable Drummap- and Programchange midi- channels separately in which the program will search for the events to convert (default set by config.file param. 5). Normally for Drummap the midichannels 10 and/or 16 are used. The program converts only the PITCH-value in the chosen drummap midi-channel(s) from Music-X sequences (.Seq) or performances (.Perf), although this extension is not relevant the file struc- ture is. The Drummap pitch value will be taken from the selected config.file (param. 6) which is the drummap conversiontable of your synth. For Programchange the events will only be converted in the selected programchange midichannels (Default also set by config.file param. 5) but can be changed manually by pressing these switches. The Program change events will be converted in conformity with the config.file conversion table (param. 7). -- SELECT gadget: Pressing 'SELECT' a file requester will appear, showing the files which match the default inputpath and mask. Modify the path if you wish to choose different from the default (The default input-path is set in the config.file param. 1). You may also change the mask (wildcards) and/or selecting 'ALL'. (The default mask is set in the config.file param. 3). The selected files will be shown highlighted. If you want to select manually then the SHIFT-key can be used for multiple file-selection. When ready selecting the file(s), press the OK gadget in the file requester to end the file-selection. The requester will then disappear. -- GET (output path) gadget: Pressing 'GET' will cause the output-path requester to pop up. Modify the output-path if you want it different from the default, (The default output-path is set in the config.file param. 2) to notify the program where you wish to store the converted files. After that you can select OK in this requester. If all the needed conditions to convert are met, the gadget 'CONVERT' will be blank (enabled) and thus available to select. -- CONVERT gadget: Pressing 'CONVERT' will start the conversion of the selected files. The progress can be followed in the Output Window. The number of patches are showed for drummap and programchanges. If there is nothing to patch, nothing will be written! The program checks if the selected files are of the correct type 'MSCX' (for Music-X) by reading the file header. If they are not, they will not beeing converted. Further, you can continue converting, by selecting again files (see SELECT) or 'quitting' by pressing the close-gadget of the MIDI-converter window or selecting 'Quit' from the 'project' menu. -- The 'project'-menu: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. About 'Some programmers INFO' 2. Delete 'Delete files' 3. Quit 'End of session' -- Music-X notes: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MUSIC-X uses all the memory that it can get: This can give some trouble, when other programs are started and Music-X is already active! Possible solutions are: Start the other programs first or modify the icon TOOL-TYPE 'BUFFER' of the Music-X icon. Change the value xxxx of BUFFER=xxxxK to correct the size of memory used by Music-X. After that start Music-X again. (xxxx is dependent of the size of your available memory and what you will give to Music-X). If you want to use both: MIDI-Convert and Music-X, select 'SUSPEND' in the SEQUENCER-page of MUSIC-X, Now you can convert without troubles, when ready: Go back to Music-X and select 'RESUME'. C. Soeters & W. Schaaij ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AmiMusicians: THERE IS NO COPYRIGHT AT ALL, USE IT WITH PLEASURE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SO, CALL IT 'PLEASUREWARE' IF YOU WANT. As long as nothing would be changed, you may use it for free! BUT: If you like it, please send me some of your (GM) MIDIsongs .mid / .perf Send it to: STARLIGHT-BBS Den Helder, Holland (+31)2230 16836 Baudrate 2400-14k4 Postal: Send your midi-disk(s) and / or bug-report to (See below). 100% Assembly version 2.0 written by Cees Soeters, Den Helder (Holland) Using Devpac3, gadtools.library and reqtools.library for the G.U.I. We have plans to start a MIDI-USERS GROUP with BBS-base! Program ideas, docs, support and testing by Willem Schaaij. Who wrote the first Basic-compiled evaluation versions (till v1.25). 16 July 1993. W. Schaaij Praamstraat 36 NL-1784NG Den Helder Holland.