>> 1. Could somebody explain to me what MIDI thing I'm supposed to >> do when I see this: >> V:2 bass program 1 46 > That means means V:2 is to be played by General Midi program 46 > (Orchestral Harp)
Which is an icky way to do it - there ought to be a way to give instruments human-readable names. >> (That came from Jack Campin's CD which he graciously sent me, iabc >> can play 'David Hume's Lament', but I still can't change voices). > So Jack includes BarFly specific abc on his CD? Naughty, Jack! ;-) I started doing the multi-voice stuff on that CD back when BarFly was the only game in town for it - and its syntax has so much less gratuitous verbosity than the others that I'm not going back to change it. I want the source to be readable and I haven't seen anybody else's multivoice ABC written as if readability were any consideration at all; when I see somebody else's notational conventions used to achieve anything as readable as what I've got, and tested out as such by a blind user on a Braille console as mine has been, I'll think about redoing it. You get MIDI, QuickTime and GIF files too, so it's not as if there's any ambiguity about what the constructs mean. That tune gave me more problems than any other on the CD. BarFly users might try generating staff notation from my source, compare what they get with my GIF, and speculate on how I got from the one to the other. (Phil will doubtless get round to to fixing the problem in the end, but I can see why it might get put off for a while yet). =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
