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Rest in peace, Kirk Kerbain

I am having an issue with the sound on the website. I can hear songs that others have written in the Explore section, but when I want to work on a draft I've created, no sound. The same when I try to start a new song. It was working last night when I was originally creating my draft. I've left the site and come back with the same problem. Then it somehow started working again (though I don't know what I did to make that happen), and now the sound is gone again. I think I clicked on another tab in my browser (Safari on a Mac) and then came back to my song draft tab and the sound had stopped. The file plays, just no sound. The fact that I can hear other's compositions on this website, but not my own seems very strange. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi,

I've created and imported a MIDI file, the importer is defaulting to Grand Illusions 30 scale. When I switch to the Grand Illusions 30 (F Scale) I'm losing some notes that aren't in that scale. However, I've written the MIDI file to match the available notes for the F scale. Is there any way to make the F scale the default melody type when importing a MIDI file?

Thanks

Hi!

Here is my latest project!

Fix the Beats is an app that automatically arranges the notes in a MIDI file within the range of your instrument. Its default mode is for the 30 note music box in F scale. It even annotates the MIDI file, so that you can review the changes in a score writer software!

Here are some interesting links in text format, as it gave "suspicious link" if I entered them normally:
You can find the app at the following link: triple "w" (dot) speakthebeats (dot) com/FixTheBeats/
Here is an instructions video on YouTube: triple "w" (dot) youtube (dot) com/watch?v=O4FZk1XRNpc

The audio track in the video was created using Fix the Beats. It is based on The Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude 2 by J. S. Bach, arranged for playing on a 30 note music box in F scale.

Cheers!

Based on Mitxela work, I did my version of a 3D printed midi automatic 30 notes music box.

You can find it on thingiverse :
thing: 5420570

or on youtube: video number
9jjSEVaLW8U

and

6U9aKwzHTZE

I used the "bella ciao" midi file found on musicboxmania, thanks for all...

Hi, I would like to know what you think about this melody, obviously it is not like the score, but I do what I can (it is not finished yet)

:D

https://musicboxmaniacs.com/explore/melody/alkan-etude-op-35-no-8_107123/

Greetings, I've been searching for a couple of days now to no avail. There is this tune by the alias "1805 swiss snuff music box: traditional music box", which has no actual name accredited to it. Can you identify what the original composition/song is?
Lunk: [suspicious link]

I have tens of thousands of midi files. Is there a good technique for searching through them by key signature and tempo? Looking for software that works on MacOS.

I have now taken the time to use CHATGPT to write a python code that will take an 88 note scale MIDI file and translate it into an accurate Fisher Price Music Box Record Player Disk
while keeping the melody and the Fisher Price Tempo of 80 BPM. The code actually works as generated by ChatGPT 4o but it took some 100 trys at it before I got a working code.

Reply here for more information. Russ Campbell

I was recently gifted a 30-note Grand Illusions (F scale) and found that many of the songs on this site are created for the C scale version of the same box. If I punched out an arrangement in C, would my box play the same thing just in F? The melody editor changes notes when transposing to the F scale version, but the papers I have tell me that all the notes are the same just transposed a fourth up.

If they have the same interval layout, is there any real reason to change the notes when transposing in the melody editor? I feel like it's throwing me off for no reason. It could be something I'm missing, pls let me know.