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- Trackman MIDI Song File Conversion Utility
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- The conversion utility accepts one or more standard MIDI files
- and outputs standard Trackman files.
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- Screen Resolution
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- The converter runs in ST medium (mode 2) or ST high (mode 3)
- only. If you use Trackman in TT medium (mode 5), you will need to
- switch to ST high to use the conversion utility.
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- File Menu
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- Convert MIDI Song File - converts a single MIDI file.
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- Convert All MSF's - converts all MIDI files in the selected path.
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- Quit - exits the conversion utility.
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- Goodies Menu
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- Format - a floppy disk in drive A or B, single or double sided.
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- Autoskip Off - duplicate file names are normally skipped
- automatically. Selecting 'Autoskip Off' will present a dialog box
- each time a duplicate file is encountered. You can then choose:
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- 1. Save overwrite the existing file.
- 2. Skip the file is not saved.
- 3. Rename you can rename the file before it is saved.
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- Short Notes - you can choose how short notes are processed:
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- 1. Off no changes will be made.
- 2. 1/16 short notes will be stretched to 1/16 note.
- 3. 1/32 short notes will be stretched to 1/32 note.
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- Use the short note facility when converting drum patterns. Often
- the drums in a MIDI song file will have notes so short that it
- would be difficult to use Trackman's 'Screen Edit'. The process
- is applied to all very short notes in the MIDI song file.
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- If you need to alter the note lengths for a specific track then
- make the conversion without using 'Short Notes' and instead use
- Trackman's 'Post Quantise' or 'Set Gate Time' to get the effect
- you want.
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- Notes
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- Prompts will appear in the menu bar to let you know what is
- happening, this confirms which menu selection you made when the
- file selector is displayed.
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- If the MIDI song file contains tracknames they will be put in the
- tracksheet for the sequence.
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- System exclusive data is supported and converted.
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- System Limitations
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- Running tempo is not supported.
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- Converted tempo may be one tenth BPM out due to rounding errors
- in the conversion process - if you see a tempo of 119.9 BPM you
- can probably guess what was intended.
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- About MIDI Song Files
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- Some MIDI song files use General MIDI, which attempts to
- standardise drum and voice assignments to increase portability
- between synthesizers. This system is supported. Files containing
- this information will have extra tracks containing controller
- setup data and patch changes. Typically, this data will be in bar
- one and will be used to set up your General MIDI synthesizer.
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- General MIDI tracks are usually named 'GM/GS', 'FADE', 'PATCH CH'
- or may be any un-named track.
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- If you do not use General MIDI synthesizers you may wish to
- delete the first bar to remove the unwanted information.
- Alternatively you could erase the tracks containing the GM data.
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- Drum Maps
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- Unless you have a General MIDI drum synth it is unlikely that the
- drum maps in the MIDI song files will match the drum map of your
- synth. You can create a drum map using Trackman's 'Drum List'. We
- have noticed a number of different drum maps in use, but each
- supplier tends to use the same one across all files.
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- (c)1993 Hollis Research
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