Deconstructing and Reconstructing "Carpet of the Sun" with Seq66
Chris Ahlstrom
2021-05-21 to 2021-05-21

"Carpet of the Sun" is a great tune from Renaissance that we tried to transcribe
to MIDI by ear a long time ago.  I've been told that the transcription is
out-of-key, unfortunately.  I still like it and want to convert it from scoring
for the Yamaha PSS-790 to General MIDI.

The original file, carptsun.mid, had the following setups:

Track  0: Ch 1. Time Sig and Tempo.
Track  1: Ch 3. Melody, notes only, no patching or control events.  Needs an
                instrument with long sustain during the note.
Track  2: Ch 8. "Guitar" chords, full-measure and half-measure long.
Track  3: Ch 8. A feeble attempt to imitate guitar strumming.  Annoying now.
                Needs a slower decay.
Track  4: Ch 5. Chord accompaniment.
Track  5: Ch 1. Piano accompaniment and flavor.
Track  6: Ch 1. Improvisational Piano accompaniment and flavor.
Track  7: Ch 6. Woodwind, oboe.  Flavor for the melody.
Track  8: Ch 3. Bass Cello or bass guitar.
Track  9: Ch 1. Another bass line.
Track 10: Ch 6. Strings.
Track 11: Ch 1. Harpsichord.
Track 12: Ch 2. Conga Low, note 91. Weird, next track's title is appended to
                this track's title in the Event Editor. BUG in Seq66 or in
                EditTrack?
Track 13: Ch 2. Conga High, note 89. Same BUG.
Track 14: Ch 2. Bass Drum, note 36. Same BUG.
Track 15: Ch 2. Snare Drum 2, note 43. Same BUG.
Track 16: Ch 2. Crash Cymbal 1, note 53. Same BUG.
Track 17: Ch 2. Closed Hi Hat 1, note 47. Same BUG.
Track 18: Ch 5 and 6. Ch 5 --> Program 10, Control 64 at 127, then 0.
                Ch 6 --> Program 7.
Track 19: Chs 1, 2, & 3.  Various program changes and some control 64s.
Track 20: Ch. 7. "My" track, some extra flair, a few sour notes.
Track 21: Ch. 2. A copy of the "Melody" track.
Track 22: Ch. 2. Snare Drum 1, note 41.

Translated drums:  midicvtpp failed to translate them!  And the Conga values are
weird.

Track 12: Ch 2. Conga Low,       note 91 - 27 --> 64
Track 13: Ch 2. Conga High,      note 89 - 26 --> 63
Track 14: Ch 2. Bass Drum,       note 36 +  0 --> 36
Track 15: Ch 2. Snare Drum 2,    note 43 -  3 --> 40
Track 16: Ch 2. Crash Cymbal 1,  note 53 -  4 --> 49
Track 17: Ch 2. Closed Hi Hat 1, note 47 -  5 --> 42
Track 22: Ch. 2. Snare Drum 1,   note 41 -  3 --> 38



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