David asked:

>Very impressed to hear about the E-Tracker to Midi program...

As I said before, so am I.. I'd like to see it.

There's also a small problem of matching the Tracker's
samples to a MIDI voice. But, that's not such a problem
if you have an expensive keyboard that you can upload
voices to - just convert the Tracker samples to voices
and throw it up there. But I don't have such a keyboard! :(


>What's the chance of doing the oppisite? Taking the raw Midi data and
>creating a Pro/E-Tracker file from it?

That might be an interesting problem. If my understanding
is correct, Pro/E-Tracker music files are created using
short patterns that are played over-and-over again in
different sequences... Whilst, generally, MIDI files
tend to be like one (or more if Type 1) long stream of
commands. Tho, SAM Sequencer uses the same concept of
patterns, aswell... (Which is why, even though my SMF ->
SAM-Seq converter will be easy enough, a SAM-Seq -> SMF
could turn out to be one hell of an arse-ache!)

Then again, I don't really know how the SAM versions do
it. Can they cope with just a long pattern per MIDI
track?

Again, there's the "fun" problem of creating tracker
samples mimicking the keyboard voices - but, somehow,
I don't think that's what you want, anyway... (more
like create new samples to creat new sounds but from
MIDI data)

Justin

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