Hello Folks, First, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I wonder if anyone among the Rollscanners group might know the history behind some unusual...
Happy New Year! Here's an excerpt from the first scan from our new roll scanner: http://haskey.com/johnh/rollscanning/rh302_excerpt.jpg More details to follow...
Back in August 2002, there was a brief discussion about a 6X board developed by Kevin Keymer. It is basically a modification to a MK3 board which instead...
From the project that will never die. Older members will recall that back in 2001 I acquired a large collection of stencils made from Fairground organ books....
Julie Porter
jporter@...
Jan 7, 2007 1:10 am
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<long interesting post snipped> Julie, very interesting news regarding the rollscan-1. I have two such boards and would like to experiment with them with your...
A week ago I shared a snippet of the first scan from my recently completed roll scanning system. Today, Craig Williams and I arrived at 'proof-of-concept' and...
Hi all! I've scanned about 100 rolls of my collection with a flatbed scanner and I've "midified" them with a software of mine. The precision of my scan is...
Some months ago, I started converted original documentation from out of my personal collection into PDF format and making it freely available. Jody Kravitz...
Off my web site, I have received the following inquiry. Hopefully, a midi file (not e-roll) of this roll she seeks might be available. In the meantime, I...
This morning, I completed scanning a small batch of Duo-Art rolls on my scanning computer. I have not been able to successfully network with my main...
I attended an AMICA meeting this last Sunday in Marin, CA. Two roll scanners were on display (including 'mine'). I took some pictures and put together a...
With the recent activity on the nets with interest in the state of the art regarding USB and MIDI here is some of my experience to share. USB has two modes of...
Julie Porter
jporter@...
Feb 14, 2007 11:59 pm
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Fellow Rollscanners; I posted a zip of the hardware design to the files section on Yahoo. I also sent these files for inclusion on the MMD archive. I will also...
Julie Porter
jporter@...
Feb 15, 2007 1:13 am
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Hi Julie, I was wondering what possessed you to write such a long email about MIDI and USB. There is a lot of information to absorb. I know something about...
That should have read "MIDI USB HID." This is the layer subclass of the USB audio HID. As you identified HID is Human Interface Device. In theory this creates...
Julie Porter
jporter@...
Feb 15, 2007 10:42 pm
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Hi All Apologies to any of you who have shown an interest in my project and have not received a reply. This has been a busy couple of weeks. I've today posted...
In the off chance someone here is interested, I thought I should draw your attention to the following notice on page 8 of the February 2007 issue of IEEE...
I recently heard a rumour that some folks scanning reproducing rolls are deliberately not including the expression coding, giving various reasons. I do not...
Hi Jim. I'm quite in agreement with you on this! In the past, it was often possible to buy recut rolls made from expression or reproducing rolls which had...
Hello Group, Jim & Bob, Although I do not have a roll scanner of my own, I have been the beneficiary of many roll scans made into "e-rolls" that will play on...
Although I have not really been looking all that hard, the roll scans I've downloaded thus far do not contain the expression coding. I have two Ampico uprights...
... If any 'archiving' is going on it should be of the CIS files (images of the scanned roll). That way the CIS files can be processed and re-processed as our...
A week or so back Terry put out a request to locate Scriabin's rolls of his 2nd Sonata. I'm glad to say that I have one of them, as well as one of the 5th...
... and ... If you combine these two messages you might get a clue to these complaints: The MIDI files that you can get on the "Archive of preserved piano ...
Hello fellow rollscanners, I've been following your recent comments about the alledged stripping of dynamics from MIDI files and would like to try and clarify...
In 200 years some music history professor may be scratching his head wondering why Joseph Hoffman chose to play a flatten Beethoven sonata. Not recording the...
Hello Larry, and other rollscanners. This question might better be addressed by the "e-valve" group, but as Larry Doe, among others has brought it up, I'd like...
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