Systems & Software Talk 

Happy Holidays 2007

I love the melodies of Christmas carols. I am an amateur MIDI enthusiast and have a goal of publishing a Christmas CD consisting of my own arrangements. I am inspired by the works of Mannheim Steamroller.

I have included two links here to free downloads of my work. Both songs are in WMA format and less than 5MB each.

• Hark
• Drummer

The first was put together on a Commodore Amiga 2000 accelerated with a 68020 card. I used Octamed to do the sequencing, driving a Rhodes (Roland) 660 keyboard. For the second song I used and for current work use Cakewalk and or FL-Studio aboard a 64-bit WIN-XP PC. I use these to drive the following:

1. Rhodes (Roland) 660 keyboard
2. Yamaha S03 Synthesizer keyboard
3. Roland SC-33 Sound Canvas, and
4. a Hercules Game Theater external sound card.

The Hercules card has the core Yamaha sound library. The Yamaha S03 goes far beyond that in terms of sounds.

Excellent!

03:45, 2007-Nov-29  ..  Posted by strazzerj     

Sweet sounds, Jim!