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- Short: MIDI controlled 16bit unlim. sample player
- Author: Najakotiva Software (Rafal Michalski, Sebastian Witkowski)
- Uploader: michalsk@dingo.if.pw.edu.pl (Rafal Michalski)
- Version: 1.0
- Type: mus/midi
-
- The Idea behind midiIn:
-
- Being stuck up only to the sounds coming from the MIDI synthesisers is very
- narrow. Sampling is the instrument of our times. I began to
- experiment with using Amiga as a MIDI-controlled sample player.
-
- The first program I used for playing samples via MIDI was OctaMed. It was
- very unconfortable, because it could play only one sample per MIDI channel.
- I could attach different actions like changing the sample to some keys,
- however. It was still not very intuitive. Then I found Bars&Pipes. I
- don't know if it's a good sequencer, because I only used it as a sample
- player. It had many limitations as well - the sample could not be longer
- than (I don't remember how many, but belive - not enough bytes), and it was
- still 8-bit sound.
-
- I wanted a program which:
-
- * can play very long samples with the only limitation of the memory size
- * was freely assignable to MIDI keys and MIDI channels
- * quality better than 8-bit
- * used midi.library to work either with external MIDI sequencers or the Amiga software
- * can load 16-bit AIFF samples as well as Amiga 8SVX and 16-bit 8SVX
-
- Royal told me, that he can write such a program. And he did.
-
- Remember: midiIn is not a tracker, nor sequencer program. It just waits
- for the MIDI commands coming either from MIDI interface or a program
- running on the same Amiga, and plays samples. But it does it very good!
-
- midiIn uses 14-bit sound - two physical Amiga channels per sample. Thanks
- to its configurability I can assign different samples to different ranges
- on my master keyboard. I can assign some of them to MIDI channels
- controlled by sequencer and I can play other samples with keyboard on the
- other channel. I can make drum sets - assigning every drum sample to one
- key, or I can make sample play transposed - assigning it to few octaves.
-
- I use midiIn for quite a long time, and find it a really professional and
- stable product (including the early beta versions). It was tested at home
- during our music sessions and on stage, during the Najakotiva concerts.
- The final version has never hung up and it has no Enforcer hits.
-
- This version is a fully working program and it is going to develop. It
- will have ARexx port to communicate with programs like SoundFX, it will
- have the mixing procedures to play more than two samples at one time (the
- alpha version of this procedure plays 10 samples on my 030 and 32 samples
- on Royal's 060).
-
- If You seriously think of making music on Amiga You should register midiIn.
- The future versions with multi-sample playback, sample panoramig, sample
- volume, stereo samples, ARexx interface is worth the fee.
-
- We are waiting for Your feedback. Send Your comments and suggestions
- either to me, or directly to Royal.
-
- Sebastian Witkowski <gorbadok@plearn.edu.pl>
- Rafal Michalski 'Royal' <michalsk@dingo.if.pw.edu.pl>
-
- My public PGP key:
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 89332 33702 62.2% 02-Jul-97 16:58:56 +midiIn
- 29804 12089 59.4% 02-Jul-97 17:10:14 +midiIn.guide
- 2608 1278 50.9% 02-Jul-97 16:54:56 +midiIn.guide.info
- 7177 2005 72.0% 02-Jul-97 16:54:16 +midiIn.info
- 50 50 0.0% 02-Jul-97 16:59:18 +midiIn.pref
- 528 384 27.2% 02-Jul-97 17:16:00 +midiIn.sig
- 0 0 0.0% 02-Jul-97 16:54:00 +
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