Dear Jim,
That would be fantastic ! Your Miditizer would be exactly what I am looking
for.

You have my full support - but I don't know what I can do to help apart from
offer my support on email.

Have you heard of Midi-Ox and Mid-Yoke ?

Midi-Ox is a program that runs on the PC and displays on the screen all midi
messages so you can see exactly what your keybaord is sending when you move
a control etc. Hany for working out problems with CC messages and PC
messages.

Midi-Yoke apparently allows you to "map" any incoming midi message to any
output message. i.e. if midi CC control code 7 comes in, send it to the
soft synth or soundfont as say CC 27. I have not used it but I understand
it works quite well but can be tricky to set up.

If this is of interest to you let me know on this list and I'll point you to
the programs. They are free.

Best regards,
Claire

----- Original Message -----
From: "jim_henry_esq" <jim_henry@...>
To: <theatre-sf@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:03 AM
Subject: [theatre-sf] Controlling a TPO SoundFont


> As most of you probably know, there is a lack of a good program for
> providing the relay function to connect the MIDI inputs to the MIDI
> outputs under stop control if one is trying to use SoundFonts in a
> way that resembles the control of a theatre pipe organ.
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> A year ago I acquired two Wurlitzer consoles that were is fair to
> poor condition and I am in the process of slowly restoring those. My
> plan is to restore the electropneumatic combination action and to use
> the console to control a MIDI synthesizer to provide the pipe sounds.
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> I am basing the synthesizer on the Cinema SoundFont from Bruce
> Miles. I am writing a program I call the Miditzer that provides the
> relay function to connect the MIDI inputs to the MIDI outputs under
> stop control. Miditzer has a long way to go but it is already doing
> a pretty good job of simulating a Wurlitzer Style 216. There is a
> graphical user interface that allows control of everything with a
> mouse. I will post a screen shot of the GUI that will give you a
> much better idea of what Miditzer does.
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> Of course, the keyboards are MUCH better controlled by MIDI keyboards
> than by using a mouse. I do most of my practicing on two MIDI
> keyboards loosely stacked on top of each other driving the Miditzer.
> No pedals yet :-( Also, no stop control or combination pistons
> except by using the mouse on the screen. No swell control at all
> yet. But even with all these unfinished parts, I have been able to
> learn quite a bit about TPO registration and maintain my meager
> manual technique, perhaps even progress a little.
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> I will be making Miditzer freely available. I am trying to put
> together a web site that explains how to set it up and use it and to
> provide a download. If anyone wants to give Miditzer a try before I
> get a web site up, just email me or post a message.
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> Best Regards,
> Jim Henry
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