The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65605   Message #1085633
Posted By: Mark Clark
03-Jan-04 - 11:41 PM
Thread Name: MIDI Volunteer Sought
Subject: RE: MIDI Volunteer Sought
Two copies of #27 left here at 5:31 PM CST, one to each of your email addresses as requested. Your post (9:18) was nearly three hours later. I'm surprised you haven't seen it.

When you do see it, you'll find that all variations are in a single MIDI file and with synced lyrics as usual. I put four measures of rest in between the variations as separators. I also sent a PDF of the score so you could see what I was doing.

One question I haven't asked though… I've only been lyric-matching the first verse of the songs. The remaining verses have been set below the score. Would you prefer each verse lyric-matched in between the staffs like a church hymnal?

Another question has to do with MIDI's representation of key signatures. Some of the songs are in Mixolydian mode and I've been entering them that way. When you process the MIDI files, is the mode retained in any way except to note the sharps and flats?

Some of the songs use the fermata (bird's eye) and I've been carefully entering those as well. What I don't know is how the fermata is expressed in the MIDI file. Hopefully they come through properly.

      - Mark