> David asked: > > >Very impressed to hear about the E-Tracker to Midi program...
Justin replied... > As I said before, so am I.. I'd like to see it. Thanks both! ;) > 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! :( Well, neither do I; in any case, I'm not sure how you'd go about converting an E-Tracker Instrument to a wave form. BTW, my program doesn't actually convert an E-Tracker file to a MIDI file, it just translates the E-Tracker file as it plays the music. Basically it works like this... (now, how basic shall I make this? :) Each of the 6 E-Tracks is given a MIDI-channel and each E-Instrument is given either a program number to send to the current E-Tracks MIDI-channel or its own MIDI-channel to use directly. It's left to the user to decide what instrument the E-Instrument is supposed to sound like and select the program number as required. As for E-Trackers ornaments; these can be translated to upto 3 simultaneous notes for converting the often used arpeggios into proper chords, but other effects are hard to reproduce. At the moment I'm working on the interrupt routines that drive the MIDI output, so that when a MIDI interrupt occurs at the same time as a FRAME or LINE interrupt it doesn't get missed. This has been made more difficult by the fact that the MIDI interrupt signal only seems to last about half the length of time as the others do (is this normal, or just my machine?)! Anyway, that got a bit more technical than I planned. If anyone would like to see it as it stands, let me know. > Justin > David Laundon.
