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Conference napalm::commusic_v1

Title:* * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * *
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Created:Thu Feb 20 1986
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Number of topics:2852
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2250.0. "MIDI song position pointer question" by DNEAST::BOTTOM_DAVID (Nice computers don't go down) Tue Jan 30 1990 12:59

    I have a question about song position pointer:
    
    If I create a sequence on my HR16 and then recorda sync track on my 688
    (which does SPP) can I then edit the original drum sequence radically,
    keeping only the lenght and tempo the same, and have it then sync to
    and respond properly to the SPP data I get out of the 688?
    
    Is this implememtation specific?
    
    etc.
    
    dbii
    
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2250.1As AdvertisedAQUA::ROSTEveryone loves those dead presidentsTue Jan 30 1990 13:3216
    
    Yep, it should work.  If it doesn't, what good is it???  8^)  8^)
    
    I've had three MIDI boxes with SPP and they have all played together
    and worked as advertised, i.e. moving the measure on the master unit
    caused all the slaves to track along (although there is a lag of a
    second or two if the jump is large).    
    
    You can also use it so that when you need to punch in a million times at
    bar XXX, that your drum box will always jump to the correct part of the
    drum track for you.
    
    One of the coolest things in the MIDI spec as far as I'm concerned.
    
    						
    						Brian
2250.2Hey you can even play a different tune altogetherTALK::HARRIMANThe nuke runs MAXCIMTue Jan 30 1990 13:5014

	It's easy. Just cue the wrong tape, or load the wrong sequence. It'll
	even cue into the middle of the wrong sequence. 

	;^)

	Seriously, though, I use SPP a lot, and usually long after I've striped
	the original tape, and performed numerous edits to the sequence. So long
	as the sequence length in measures is always identical, your only
	problem is making sure that you don't change the structure of the
	song.

	/pjh