The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53821 Message #830432
Posted By: Joe Offer
20-Nov-02 - 01:50 AM
Thread Name: Tech: OK, I can do MIDIs. How do I post them?
Subject: RE: Tech: OK, I can do MIDIs. How do I post them?
Oh, by the way, when you post lyrics or when you send a MIDI file, it really helps if you give source information. Lyrics in the Digitrad should be documented. It's a simple thing, and it's makes the information much more valuable. If you got it from a printed source, identify the source. If you transcribed it by listening to a recording, say so. If you're giving lyrics from memory, say so - but try to tell us where you learned the song. We don't have a way of posting documentation of tunes we receive, but if you send us the information, it sure helps if we need to make corrections. I can usually tell quite easily if a tune is wrong, but it can be tough to figure out how to make it right - unless I can go back to the source. I get some tunes that go on the back burner and stay there because I just can't figure out how to make them work. The worst problems are with meter - we get MIDI files that somebody pounded out on a keyboard, and the output just doesn't fit into sheet music. In tunes with 4/4 time, we expect four full beats per measure - no more, no less. Thanks. -Joe Offer-