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My import seems ok and when I "play" it on the web site, it sounds fine. When I publish it and print the strips, you have to crank like crazy to make it sound reasonable. It is in 3/4 and is a lullaby but the poor kid might grow up before the piece is completed. Any suggestions on how I can condense the published strip so that it plays faster on the music box without a wrist sprain?
Write between the lines. Print it out on the paper, but use that as a pattern but slide it so that the notes are twice as close together in time.
You could create an image file and then resize it unproportionally (horizontally only) using an image editing file. You might be able to do that to the .PDF if you have Adobe Acrobat.
Mark, Thanks for the ideas. The horizontal compression is brilliant. I am unclear about the second one. I use Midi Notate Composer to work with my midi files. I can control the replay speed within the tool but doubt that it would be passed on to the exported .MID. Do you think that there is another midi tool that would let me pass on tempo data to the saved MIDI? TIA
I wish I could post a screen shot. Anyway, on this page: https://musicboxmaniacs.com/explore/melody/edies-lullaby-by-anne-watson_40593/ it shows BPM 120. I assume you can modify that to 240? That would compress the distance between notes, I think. I've never written or modified anything. Maybe I'll clone & modify it, if I can figure out how.
I understand that of course you can turn the crank faster, but you wouldn't be able to turn the whole song. Should some of the cog wheels in the engine be either smaller or bigger so that the song would speed up and not have to turn the crank faster?
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Write between the lines.
Print it out on the paper, but use that as a pattern but slide it so that the notes are twice as close together in time.
You could create an image file and then resize it unproportionally (horizontally only) using an image editing file.
You might be able to do that to the .PDF if you have Adobe Acrobat.
Can you just write it as 240 BPM to make it twice as fast?
It may sound frantic on the computer but work well in the music box.
Mark, Thanks for the ideas. The horizontal compression is brilliant. I am unclear about the second one. I use Midi Notate Composer to work with my midi files. I can control the replay speed within the tool but doubt that it would be passed on to the exported .MID. Do you think that there is another midi tool that would let me pass on tempo data to the saved MIDI? TIA
I wish I could post a screen shot.
Anyway, on this page:
https://musicboxmaniacs.com/explore/melody/edies-lullaby-by-anne-watson_40593/
it shows BPM 120.
I assume you can modify that to 240? That would compress the distance between notes, I think.
I've never written or modified anything. Maybe I'll clone & modify it, if I can figure out how.
I could only increase it to 160 BPM, but I changed it from 4/4 to 3/4 time, which appeared to compresss it.
https://musicboxmaniacs.com/explore/melody/mark_42s-clone-of-edies-lullaby-by-anne-watson_40632/
I have found that the setting of tempi on the website affects the playback but does NOT change the strips in the PDF. Am I wrong about that?
You're right - I compared them side by side, and it didn't work.
I understand that of course you can turn the crank faster, but you wouldn't be able to turn the whole song. Should some of the cog wheels in the engine be either smaller or bigger so that the song would speed up and not have to turn the crank faster?