PRAVDA SPECIAL EDITION #5 - 27th May 2003 - A Terrible National Tragedy!

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Drogue
Jamski: That isn't true. I have a very good soundcard, and it can only play in the synth that it was written in. It isn't the soundcard, it is the program it was written in.

No it isn't the soundcard. But it isn't the program either. The only logical explanation is that this is a very emotional piece of music and it got distorted in your non-emotional ears.

Please, let them have some emotions. They are only human ... Oh let them be mad with me ...

On a second thought, it may be better this way. Please don't be mad with me. I'm only trying to help ...

[Vev]

Notice in the funeral march the machine gun fire on the traitors

[Corellion]

We don't need a national anthem... it would be an unnecessary expenditure of resources. National anthems are designed to instill a feeling of unity and group cohesiveness within a particular group of people... a nation. They are also designed to cause feelings of pride for one's nation. However, we have no emotions, therefore we cannot feel pride in our nation. Indeed, we also need no additional feeling of unity nor group cohesiveness. Our cybernetic link affords us all the group cohesiveness we need, and we do not need a musical composition to remind us of that; we have the thoughts of all other members of the Cybernetic Consciousness.

[Jamski]

That isn't true. I have a very good soundcard, and it can only play in the synth that it was written in. It isn't the soundcard, it is the program it was written in.

No Drogue, its a MIDI file - it just contains a bunch of timings for your synth to use. I'm tying to find a programm to record it as a wav or mp3 so people can hear it as it sounds on my computer, but this is proving tricky (I found a good programm, but it contained spyware - umm... no thanks) You may well have a great soundcard, but does it have a good synth? And more specifically, does it have a good synthtrumpet? Make sure its mapped to General MIDI, too, otherwise you'll get strange things like it plays synthtrumpet with the synthviolin patch. This happens a lot with Roland cards.

And, don't argue, when I change which soundcard I'm using (I have two in this box here) the quality of the synthisized instruments changes, so it is the soundcard. Try this - go into a keyboard salesroom and try the "trumpet" patch on all the different Yamahas and Casios and Rolands. They all sound completely different. Trumpet's just one of those sounds its hard to synthisize well.

-Jam

[Static Universe]

PRAVDA just gets better and better. And already the fifth issue!!! A shame the factions with so-called "free speech" can't seem to produce enough words to keep up with us.

[Jamski]

Originally posted by Vev
Notice in the funeral march the machine gun fire on the traitors

There are no traitors anymore

-Jam

[Hercules]

My belated congratulations on a great issue and our Pirate's joy sorrow at the loss of so many of the Hive population.

We Pirates have many anthems: we call them Shanties as you know.

[Jamski]

/me has vision of a great orchestral masterpiece with the music of the other factions being slowly drowned out by the Glorious Anthem of the Human Hive

-Jam

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Jamski
No Drogue, its a MIDI file - it just contains a bunch of timings for your synth to use.

Actually no. It has the instruments that you have used, and then is replicted as accurately to how it is to as as it can. The program also has only a certain number of instruments. It will be reinterpreted by the soundcard of the receiver, but it has to use the base of that MIDI file. I have a different program to write them, and the trumpet sounds a lot more realistic. It is a combination of the program it was written in, and the soundcard of the listener, a weakest link sort of thing.

Originally posted by Jamski
You may well have a great soundcard, but does it have a good synth? And more specifically, does it have a good synthtrumpet?

Yes. I have written many pieces in it, and it sounds pretty realistic to me. Not as good as real life, obviously, but pretty close. Wa it written in trumpet or synthtrumpet?

Originally posted by Jamski
And, don't argue, when I change which soundcard I'm using (I have two in this box here) the quality of the synthisized instruments changes, so it is the soundcard.

Yes, it is the soundcard. It is also the program. Both create what sound it is. It is first decided by thw program it is written in, and then done with the soundcard. It will change with a different soundcard, it will also change with a different program (I ported it into on of my programs, and it sounded different).

Originally posted by Jamski
Try this - go into a keyboard salesroom and try the "trumpet" patch on all the different Yamahas and Casios and Rolands. They all sound completely different. Trumpet's just one of those sounds its hard to synthisize well.

Very true. However, that is both the hardware and the software that gives the difference.

[Jamski]

Just looked at my MIDI channel presets :

043 : Trumpet 1
044 : Trumpet 2
045 : Trumpet 3
046 : Mute Trumpet

Probably you have something similar, and your Trumpet 1 is the "duff trumpet" while in my case Trumpet 1 is the "alright trumpet" I'll try playing with the channel presets to make a version(s) good for other soundcards too. I think your software is selecting a different trumpet patch as the default, if that's clear, and that could explain it.

I just used the default binding for "Trumpet" - not sythtrumpet - whether this was 043, 044, or 045 I can't say ATM

I'll try and track it down... can't take long with the standard 128 MIDI instruments

-Jam

[Drogue]

Maybe. I don't know how mine is named, have to see. I thought trumpet one was an actual trumpet recorded. I recorded me playing into my computer for each note, with my (more computer literate) brothers help. It may just be a wrong setting

[Jamski]

Oh I wish trumpet one was an actuall trumpet recorded... I'd absolutely LOVE that. Oh well......

-Jam

[Drogue]

I can try and get the file to send you. It may take a while 9wait til my brother get's back) but we can do that. Most of mine were changed to that, I just play each note of each instrument into the computer, and my brother sets it to being that synth.

[Jamski]

Ah - so you're using samplepatches instead of synthpatches. That should sound much nicer. Yses I'd love to hear that Drug please

-Jam

[Atlantian]

Hello, I am back and am ready to make my ussual comments on the evil shortcommings of the hive and there 'communism.'

Commies are evil. and now for my deepest blow! Mwahahaha!

You are actually capitalist pigs disguised as political revolutionaries who would like to make things better for yourselves but don't like looking like capatal pigs and so say that the government owns all the industry and that it is a good thing for all and in reality you are just looking for cheap slave labor.

WOOOoooh! That took a lot of breath.

(OOC: I bet you can't wait to find PEACE so you can nerve staple Dameon. I know you guys are just playing (I think), so I am playing my semi politician leader of the Atlantians, Dameon, who isn't leader of the atlanteans, but the Deep Sea Xenorum Researcher of PEACE. Must... Catch... Breath... *breaths heavily after two too many long sentances*)