At Frog Music we’ve been busy converting PR-300 MIDI Modules to work with a USB
drives - primarily for churches unable to find an organist and desperate to
matian the organ as part of their music programs. We’ve been able to supply
chruches with Syndyne Pro-Filers who were not lucky enough to have gotten a PR
with thier new Rodgers.
(totally off the subject, we were contacted to assist Petersen in preparing the
beer bottle organ in this video - the midi files they were using in were not
compatible with the Symdyne Pro-Filer that plays it when live players are not
available.
See it here:
https://youtu.be/2S7xMCR-dDc ;<https://youtu.be/2S7xMCR-dDc>
And hear an earlier version of it here:
http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om06300.html ;
<http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om06300.html>
Today we were able to Yamaha Clavinova .mda files to .mid standard MIDI files
to play on the Pr-300 for a church that had a lot of music on the pre-Standard
MIDI Format (SMF). Both Roland and Yamaha had their own music file format in
the 1980’3 and continued to use them even after SMF Standard MIDI files became,
well, STANDARD.
Unfortunately, both companies stopped producing software to change these disks
over for modern use. We are not was to convert both kinds and get them playing
again.
So we are recovering MIDI music files recorded in the 1980’s - unfortunately
more than half of the disks have deteriorated due to loss of magnetism over the
years.
MIDI remains powerful - we are in the midst of preparing MIDI performances of
works by John Cage for a contemporary music group. It’s been interesting to
create a MIDI files and then test it on the organ, about ten measures of dense
music that take more than 35’ to play - and that’s just one of the 8 pieces,
all a similar length. The Roland C-330 here does an admirable job of playing
them.
Noel Jones, AAGO
noel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
606 756 7979
423 333 0947 cell
Frog Music Press
636 Old 19
Augusta, KY 41002
www.frogmusic.com
