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APPENDIX D: QuickTime‚Ñ¢ & MIDI
(Including a List of GM Sounds)
QuickTime Musical Instruments
QuickTime is Apple's de-facto standard for multimedia on the Macintosh and
Intel PC. It contains a wealth of "components" for creating and presenting
movies, VR panoramas, sound, and music. A major upgrade to QuickTime 3.0
is just around the corner, with even more amazing capabilities.
QuickTime comes bundled with every Mac as a system extension. To gain the
capabilities of QuickTime you must have it in your Extensions folder along
with its companion parts which extend its abilities. The current version, 2.5,
has the following files:
In your Extensions Folder....
QuickTime‚Ñ¢
QuickTime‚Ñ¢ MPEG Extension
QuickTime‚Ñ¢ Musical Instruments
QuickTime‚Ñ¢ PowerPlug
QuickTime‚Ñ¢ VR
In the Control Panels folder....
QuickTime‚Ñ¢ Settings
FretPet can make use of QuickTime‚Ñ¢ Musical Instruments to play music
through the Mac's built-in sound output. If this component is turned off in the
Extensions Manager‚Ñ¢ or Conflict Catcher‚Ñ¢ then FretPet will revert to Sound
Manager sounds, for which there is only a single rather rough sound sample.
Get a copy of the latest Quicktime from <http://quicktime.apple.com>.
M I D I
FretPet can play its sequences through your sampler, synthesizer, or drum
machine using QuickTime's MIDI support. This will give you a wider range of
sounds and produce a much higher quality output.
In the process of getting together this latest beta version, I've had to do some
high and low searching to find out how to channel sound through QuickTime's
MIDI support. To save you the same difficulties I had, here's the scoop on the
QuickTime‚Ñ¢ Settings control panel.
Select the Music panel from the popup menu. You will see several checkbox
options. On most systems all of these will be grayed out except for
"QuickTime Music Synthesizer." On my system "General MIDI On … Port"
options were never available, even with Apple's (obsolete) Midi Manager.
Apple includes no direct MIDI support under QuickTime 2.x.
The last option, "OMS," is for the Opcode Music System‚Ñ¢. OMS is THE set of
tools to give your Mac an automatic rapport with MIDI devices. You can
download the latest version from <http://www.opcode.com> or
<http://world.std.com/~slur/mac/mac_muse.html>.
The General Theory of MIDI - tivity
The FretStuff->Instrument Settings menu item (<◊ ><Y>) lets you select from
any of 135 different sounds. However... Unless you're connected to a real
MIDI synthesizer you only have access to a fraction of these. Unsupported
instruments appear in ITALICS in the "Instrument:" popup menu.
(See the List of GM Sounds below to see which sounds are available.)
◊
THE INSTRUMENT SETTINGS DIALOG
Your synthesizer may have several instrument banks capable of thousands of
instrument sounds, but you will only have access to the 135 provided via the
General MIDI standard. You can bypass this limitation by manually setting
instruments on your synthesizer prior to playing.
The QuickTime Synthesizer provides several built-in instrument sounds
including a passable piano and a harpsichord-sounding guitar. If these sounds
affect you negatively…… start saving for that MIDI setup.
Beyond QuickTime‚Ñ¢ Sound
Synths are pretty cheap these days, and most of them now have MIDI support.
If you're serious about using your computer to do any music work you can't go
wrong by getting a synth.
I recommend a small rack-mount or half-rack synth box and a separate "dumb"
MIDI keyboard. This provides you with a decent setup for sequencing and
makes it possible to control multiple synths from the same keyboard with or
without turning on the computer.
For developing FretPet I used the 640-sound Alesis NanoSynth‚Ñ¢ and the
Roland PC-200 MK II MIDI Keyboard Controller. For a MIDI interface I chose
the Mark Of The Unicorn FastLane‚Ñ¢. All of these fit nicely in the confines of a
small multimedia workstation. Just remember these essential words of
wisdom: "Sticky-backed Velcro‚Ñ¢"
The NanoSynth‚Ñ¢ is the equivalent of an Alesis QS6 in a tiny 5.5" x 1.5" x 4.5"
case. The small size conceals a powerful 64-voice multitimbral synthesizer.
As a slave to the Mac it does a beautiful job.
The Roland keyboard has 4 octaves of full-size velocity-sensitive keys,
octave-shift buttons to extend its range to 6 octaves, various MIDI commands
for changing instruments, etc., and a bender / modulator to add color.
All-in-all this makes a killer amateur MIDI setup - especially with a cool tool
like FretPet. *pat - pat*
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LIST OF GM SOUNDS
Numbers are standard GM values.
Items in blue are included in the
built-in QuickTime‚Ñ¢ Synthesizer.
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Piano Reed
1 Acoustic Grand Piano 65 Soprano Sax
2 Bright Acoustic Piano 66 Alto Sax
3 Electric Grand Piano 67 Tenor Sax
4 HonkyTonk Piano 68 Baritone Sax
5 Rhodes Piano 69 Oboe
6 Chorused Piano 70 English Horn
7 Harpsichord 71 Bassoon
8 Clavinet 72 Clarinet
Chromatic Percussion Pipe
9 Celesta 73 Piccolo
10 Glockenspiel 74 Flute
11 Music Box 75 Recorder
12 Vibraphone 76 Pan Flute
13 Marimba 77 Bottle Blow
14 Xylophone 78 Shakuhachi
15 Tubular Bells 79 Whistle
16 Dulcimer 80 Ocarina
Organ Synth Lead
17 Hammond Organ 81 Square Wave
18 Percussive Organ 82 Saw Wave
19 Rock Organ 83 Calliope
20 Church Organ 84 Chiffer
21 Reed Organ 85 Charang
22 Accordion 86 Solo Vox
23 Harmonica 87 5th Saw Wave
24 Tango Accordion 88 Bass and Lead
Guitar Synth Pad
25 Acoustic Nylon Guitar 89 Fantasy
26 Acoustic Steel Guitar 90 Warm
27 Electric Jazz Guitar 91 Polysynth
28 Electric Clean Guitar 92 Choir
29 Electric Muted Guitar 93 Bowed
30 Overdriven Guitar 94 Metal
31 Distortion Guitar 95 Halo
32 Guitar Harmonics 96 Sweep
Bass Synth Effect
33 Acoustic Fretless Bass 97 Ice Rain
34 Electric Bass Fingered 98 Sound Tracks
35 Electric Bass Picked 99 Crystal
36 Fretless Bass 100 Atmosphere
37 Slap Bass 1 101 Brightness
38 Slap Bass 2 102 Goblins
39 Synth Bass 1 103 Echoes
40 Synth Bass 2 104 Space
Strings and Orchestra Ethnic
41 Violin 105 Sitar
42 Viola 106 Banjo
43 Cello 107 Shamisen
44 Contrabass 108 Koto
45 Tremolo Strings 109 Kalimba
46 Pizzicato Strings 110 Bagpipe
47 Orchestral Harp 111 Fiddle
48 Timpani 112 Shanai
Ensemble Percussive
49 Acoustic String Ensemble 1 113 Tinkle Bell
50 Acoustic String Ensemble 2 114 Agogo
51 SynthStrings 1 115 Steel Drums
52 SynthStrings 2 116 Woodblock
53 Aah Choir 117 Taiko Drum
54 Ooh Choir 118 Melodic Drum
55 Synth Vox 119 Synth Drum
56 Orchestra Hit 120 Reverse Cymbal
Brass Sound Effects
57 Trumpet 121 Guitar Fret Noise
58 Trombone 122 Breath Noise
59 Tuba 123 Seashore
60 Muted Trumpet 124 Bird Tweet
61 French Horn 125 Telephone Ring
62 Brass Section 126 Helicopter
63 Synth Brass 1 127 Applause
64 Synth Brass 2 128 Gunshot
GM Drum Kits
16385 Standard Kit
16393 Room Kit
15401 Power Kit
16409 Electronic Kit
16410 Analog Kit
16425 Brush Kit
16433 Orchestra Kit