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Carlo
07-15-2007, 02:03 PM
Hi!

In another thread

( http://cvpug.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2178 )

we seem to have discovered a rich repository of musical scores belonging to the public domain, accessible to everybody in the User Group.

This has awakened an idea that's been crawling inside my brain for some time: the possibility to create a song by working in group, as playing in a virtual orchestra (or chamber ensemble) of CVP's, starting from the same musical score.

Whence a number of questions to be answered:

(1) Is this idea interesting (by definition, it must be shared and agreed by two persons at least...) ?

(2) If so, is it technically feasible on the CVP? Seemingly, the CVP does not allow one to concatenate or merge two MIDI files, but this should be possible, I suppose, by some external computer tool. If my hypothesis is right, that tool would permit the integration of the various parts, recorded separately on different MIDI files.

If this approach sounds nice, the User Group might also reveal some "latent" Special Interest Groups, focusing on particular musical genres.

I hope to have been enough "thought-provoking"...;)

Best regards,

dbjorck
07-16-2007, 03:03 AM
Hi!

It s a fun idea, and ericho proposed something similar a while ago;
CVPUG cyberjam (http://cvpug.com/forums/showthread.php?t=786)

It didn't take off that time as I was the only one who really signed on and I too got caught up with doing other things of my own. I did make a draft of my contribution though.

I don't think to mix MIDI files would work well even if it were possible (I'm not sure my software could do it; I can copy and paste notes from one file to another, but I don't know if it picks up any MIDI events as well - especially not the CVP events required for voice changes). It's better to pass the MIDI file from person to person as suggested in the thread above.

But a virtual orchestra would be cool.

Brgds

Danny