RE: FLASH: site check: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/rickfrnd

[Lewis Francis]

Tried the 62k or so test file on Mac NS 4.7 and it played fine all the

way through.


Because I'm trying to avoid doing something else today <g>, I took a

look at that dixie.mid file; lo and behold, there's a lot of low-value

mod wheel  and a whole lot of key release velocity events that could be

tripping up this platform's Flash/QT mix.


Mod wheel is typically what a keyboard's aftertouch sensitivity is

mapped to.  The release velocity should be tossed, too, as I doubt that

many plug-ins or consumer level cards support this (for that matter, a

lot of pro music equipment doesn't support release velocity).


Make sure you don't inadvertently zap the regular key velocity - these

events *are* commonly supported and make a big difference in the

expressiveness of a piece.


So, in summary, I don't think your dixie.mid file is corrupted - plays

just fine in Mac NS 4.7 when hit by itself  - but my bet is that

filtering out both these platform-extraneous event types will take care

of your problem without changing the musical performance in any

noticeable way.  As an added bonus, stripping these out will take your

file size down a bit.


--Lewis (who, in a previous life, used to eat, drink, and breathe midi)


Marc wrote:


> If you have time, could you check just once more? The first substitute file

> I used was much shorter; now I have a longer substitute; just want to make

> sure it isn't length-related. I'm still going to see if I can filter out

> any extraneous midi data from the original file.

>


--  Lewis Francis

--  VP Media Technologies

lfrancismagnet [dot] com (mailto:lfrancismagnet [dot] com)

--  Magnet Interactive Group    http://www.magnet.com/





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