MIDI CRAFT MIDICraft Dynamite Drums Vol #1 (MIDI Version) This directory and the 520 MIDI sequences have been sequenced and produced by Kevan R.Craft of MIDICraft, Compositions and Arrangements. MIDICraft's Dynamite Drums are in GM format (General MIDI Standard with drums transmitted on MIDI Channel 10), The MIDICraft Dynamite Drums are compatible with the IBM PC and compatibles and the Atari ST/STE/Falcon and Apple MAC computer platforms. Moreover, MIDICraft Dynamite Drums Vol #1 .MID files are also compatible for hardware based sequencers, keyboards and workstations with MIDI sequencer facilities.. The MIDICraft Dynamite Drums Vol#1 contains over 260 sequences of traditional drumming genre styles and originally came as a separate disk containing .MID files for each drumming riff and break for each genre style. The 260 MIDI drumming sequences also comes as separate .MID files for each genre style to facilitate easy loading into whichever MIDI music software package you employ, this means that all files are doubled and make a grand total of over 520 MIDI drumming sequences. You can load a .MID file, of say 'Rock' drumming sequences and examine each sequence from within your MIDI sequencer. OR, you can boot-up your sequencer and then load each individual drum sequence as .MID file to aid composition and arrangment of your MIDI music on your sequencer. The MIDICraft Dynamite Drums may be likened to 'Clips' to facilitate 'cut and paste' features in your seqencer. The data is drum sequences and drum GM MIDI Files in MIDI format 1 transmitted on the Roland GM/GS standard Channel 10. ( A Roland GM/GS Drum map document has been included in the directory for your reference.) The MIDICraft Dynamite Drums Vol#1 drumming genre styles include:- 9 Afro-Cuban + 6 Breaks 6 Blues + 3 Breaks 3 Boogie + 3 Breaks 6 Bossa Nova + 3 Breaks 3 Cha cha + 3 Breaks 12 Disco + 9 Breaks 15 Funk + 15 Breaks 6 Jazz + 3 Breaks 2 March + 2 Breaks 1 Tango + 1 Break 2 Paso Doble + 2 Breaks 1 Charlston + 1 Break 12 Pop + 6 Breaks 12 Reggae + 9 Breaks 15 Rock + 12 Breaks 12 Rhythm and Blues + 6 Breaks 6 Samba + 3 Breaks 6 Shuffle + 3 Breaks 3 Ska + 3 Breaks 12 Slow + 6 Breaks 6 Swing + 3 Breaks 3 Twist + 3 Breaks 3 Waltz + 3 Breaks 10 Endings Styles of drumming are the beats consisiting of 1 bar in 16 beat in 4/4 The Breaks are drum rolls in that particular style also 1 bar in 16 beat The directory also contains a few variations on some of the themes of drumming styles which totals over 520 MIDI drum sequences for the Amiga, PC, Atari and Apple MAC computers together with hardware based sequencers, keyboards and workstations which possess MIDI sequencer facilities.. The basic idea of how to use the MIDICraft Dynamite Drums is simply load a required style of drumming as either a separate .Seq file or .MID file into your MIDI sequencer and then CUT and PASTE the desired drum sequence to fill the space provided by the composition. When a 'Break' or drum roll is required, simply load in a drum break which possess the right 'feel' and of your own choice. Again, you may also repeat this procedure with the 10 'Ending' drum sequences provided. Obviously, feel free to modify the MIDI Drum patterns provided on this MIDICraft Dynamic Drums Vol#1 to suit your taste, inspiration and compositions etc. They constitute a solid and efficent base of current rhythms from which you can work. NOTE: [All the .MID files contained within MIDICraft Dynamite Drums Vol #1 will be compatable for any MIDI sequencer on any computer platform (Amiga/PC/Atari and Apple MAC and or hardware based synthesizer with a MIDI file import feature (either from the CDROM, via MIDI/SYSEX or copied from the CDROM to an approriate floppy disk. As the majority of International synthesizer manuafactures have created a standard employing 3.5 inch floppy based diskdrives on their hardware using MSDOS formatting/reading facilities then the MIDICraft Dynamite DrumsVol #1 files can also be ported to your hardware from the CD ROM to a formatted MSDOS disk using this method also..] MIDICraft is Copyright (c) Kevan R.Craft and Gareth R.Craft Kevan R.Craft & Gareth R.Craft MIDICraft Compositions & Arrangements 12 Mount Road Halton Runcorn Cheshire. WA7 2BH. England. U.K. Tel: +44 0928 563762 MIDI CRAFT