MIDICraft's MIDINET CD-ROM/MIDICraft's MIDINET CD-ROM.iso/KORG_I-S/INTERNET/06997.002/text0000.txt

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Hello everybody,

I' m sending my first message to the group to explain what I have found out
testing SNG2BSQ, programme which has been made by Gⁿnter Nagler recently.
First of all, I want to explain the reason why I suggested Gⁿnter making it.
I bought my korg i3 three years ago and after trying some of its features I
thought that "Backing sequences" mode would be an interesting function,
because you can take full advantage of all music possibilities that i3
offers. You can have up to 8 extra tracks you can record (as it was in
"Song" mode), 6 tracks used by music styles and 1 track to play.
It means we can add styles to "Songs".
We can record extra tracks playing live time or recording them step by step.
Unless you are a very good player, tracks recorded playing live time need to
be quantized and edited so that music notes fit in its right place.
Editing and recording step by step music with the i3 is hard and slow.
A few months later I bought Cubase Score, which is an interesting computer
sequencer.
On a computer sequencer you can edit music easier and quicker than on the i3.
Then I wondered whether it was possible to add MIDI files (recorded on a
computer sequencer) to i3  "Backing sequences" mode. Nobody I asked knew the
answer.
When i4 was released I saw it had the facility to convert "Songs" to "Back
Sequences".
A month ago I found some korg i-series sites on the Internet and some useful
software implementations to convert some kind of music files, the majority
of them made by Gⁿnter Nagler. I sent an e-mail to him asking if it was
possible to make this programme.
A week later he made SNG2BSQ to convert i3 SNG files to BSQ files. This
programme can be downloaded from :
                http://www.iicm.edu/midiprog

Last weekend I tested it and found out that it should be used as I explain now :
First of all, MIDI files must have 8 tracks, each one must be set to out to
one different channel 2-8 both included. It doesn't matter if you don't need
so many tracks. Tracks unused should be kept to avoid that after file
conversion, Keyboard and unused extra track have no sound. ( This  happens
if some of these channels are not used. Pressing "reset" they recover sound,
but unused extra tracks have the same sound as "keyboard" and whatever
volume setting is on these tracks, sound level is the same that "keyboard").
I left unused tracks in my MIDI files with 1 measure and 1 note each. This
way they are kept when you save the MIDI file. Once you have the B. S. on
your i3 you can delete them.
Each of these 8 tracks should have neither "control changes" nor "programme
change". Drum track must be kept aside.
On the i3 load the MIDI file, then press "Song" mode and set programmes for
used tracks. Save the SNG to disk. Using SNG2BSQ on your computer, convert
SNG file to BSQ file.
Now you have a BSQ file which you can play in your i3, but a few things
should be done before.
On the i3, "Load one Back Sequence" to Bsequence (0-9). In "Backing
sequences" mode set the arrangement (and style) you want your B.S. to play.
Even though you want arrangement 11, you must set it. Set volume (default is
127) and other settings for each extra tracks.
Go to page 7 and "Copy all effects" from the arrangement which is to play
the B.S.. Go to page 2. On "track status" line you will find all tracks set
to "INT". Change them to "BOTH" to avoid problems if you send the output to
an external device.
Now you have a B.S. ready to proceed like any other B.S .(record Chords and
Control tracks, etc...). Using this procedure you can build a BSQ file with
10 Back Sequences.
I hope we will be able to take advantage of this useful utility.
Enjoy your i-series keyboard.
Sorry for my English.
By for now.


Jaume Bobet

Tarragona
Spain
E-mail : [e-mail]