About my music tastes:

• A database of all the music I own
• Pictures of my studio
• Diagram of my studio
• Equipment in my studio
• Software I use in audio production



• Music I've produced, arranged or composed
• Sound Banks and Patches
• Utilities



• My MP3.com station of "Melancholy Realities"

Music Equipment:

	Name	MIDI Polyphony	MIDI Channels	Description
	Yamaha S80	64	16	88 Key Velocity sensitive (with aftertouch) weighted keyboard DSP Based effects processing 24M Sound ROM with very good synth, acoustic/orchestral, and percussion Personal Note: I love the action on this board, as well as the sounds. I can't foresee ever getting rid of it or being vastly dissatisfied. The only small hitch is the insertion effects routing which leaves a bit to be desired.
	PLG150PF	64		High quality acoustic and electric piano sounds
	PLG150VL	1		Virtual acoustics board, uses acoustical modeling to create expressive wind, reed, and brass instruments
	Alesis QS6.1	64	16	61 Key Velocity and release sensitive (with aftertouch) semi-weighted synth action keyboard 16M sound ROM, some useful synth instruments Mostly useful as a master keyboard
	E-mu Proteus 2000	128	32	32MB Composer Rom (Rock, Pop, and Synth) 1024 Presets / 512 User 24-bit dual stereo effects
	Protozoa ROM			16MB Rom (Rock, Pop, Orchesteral, and World) Proteus 1, 2, and 3 sounds 512 Presets
	ENSONIQ Project ROM			32MB Rom (Rock, Pop, Orchesteral, and World) Various sounds from the ZX expansion banks 512 Presets
	E-mu Virtuoso 2000	128	32	64MB Orchesteral Sound Rom (Brass, Winds, String and Percussion) 512 Presets / 512 User 24-bit dual stereo effects
	Siedlaczek Advanced Orchestra ROM			32MB Rom (Orchesteral) A subset of the Peter Siedlaczek Advanced Orchestra sound library 512 Presets
	SoundBlaster Live! Platinum	64	32 (32)	256M of SoundFont MIDI instrument space EMU 10k1 DSP Audio Effects Chipset (32-bit, 48KHz) MIDI In and MIDI Out
	Midiman USB Midisport 8x8/s		(256)	8 Independant MIDI Inputs (128 channels) 8 Independant MIDI Outputs (128 channels) SMTPE In and Out (Read/Write/Regenerate) with syncing to MTC
	M-Audio Delta 1010		(32)	24-bit@96kHz sampling (can run at lower) 8 +4dB/-10dB balanced/unbalanced TRS inputs 8 +4dB/-10dB balanced/unbalanced TRS outputs S/PDIF In and Out Wordclock in and Out All channels are fully independant MIDI In and MIDI Out
	Shure Beta 58a			high-output supercardioid dynamic vocal microphone 50 to 16,000 Hz Pneumatic shock mount reduces handling noise
Total:		513	128

My Music:

MP3	MID	WRK	Information
11.3M		309k	"The Sorceror's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas: I produced this for the Yamaha S80 and E-mu Proteus 2000. It was originally sequenced by Jack Gilbert, a very nice fellow from Massachusetts. I modified very little but patching and overall pan/volume/velocity for tracks to even it out as a good mix. I didn't supply a MIDI file for it because it would have been of little use because of using multiple synths.
5.78M			"Closer" (Original by NIN): Done using E-mu Proteus 2000 and my Yamaha S80... relies heavily on DirectX effects. I went a little nuts with it... it was my first production on my new Delta 1010 card and the first one I really used DirectX. It's a fair shade different than the original. I like it that way but it still needs a bit of work.
2.58M			"Ride of the Valkyries" by Wagner: Done using E-mu Virtuoso 2000... Done mostly as a demo for the V2K I only applied a slight reverb to it (DFX).
2.24M			*NEW*"Dr. Who - Theme" by Unknown: Done completely with soft synths under Sonar 2.2 Synths as follow: Junglist, Pentagon I, Scorpion, Triangle II, and LiveSynth.
730k			*NEW*"Melancholy Dance" by Eric von Bayer: Finally! Something I wrote myself and sounds good! I've had some comments that it sounds almost Slovakian in origins. It was done using E-mu Virtuoso 2000 for the harp sound... This is simply a theme on which eventually I hope to expand, but I thought I'd make it available in the meantime.

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• VSampler Banks...
• Rapture Patches...
• Enhanced GM Bank (EGM) V1.1:

  This is the original GM bank which I tweaked up a bit. It's a little more expressive and contains a fair number of instruments that now respond to aftertouch. It is both useful for GM work and fairly pleasing to play solo on. Most of the MIDI files here are done using Performance Mode and A04 (non PF seqs) or A05 (PF seqs). These two modes allow the performance to respond to bank changes, not just patch changes.

• CS6X Bank for Yamaha S80
• EGM Bank for Yamaha S80
• GM Bank Yamaha S80
• Extra Voice Bank for Yamaha S80 (XTRAVOIC)
• PLG150-PF plugin board for Yamaha S80
• PLG150-VL plugin board for Yamaha S80
• Proteus 2000 with Protozoa ROM
• Virtuoso 2000

• Exactamento.cal (V1.0) - Script to generate exact portamento slides. It will convert multiple overlapping notes into a single held note where pitch hanges are achieved with pitchbend messages. If there is a gap or the jump in pitch is too great, the note will be released and a new note played. The portamento speed is dictated by the length of the overlap.
• Force Notes to Last Event at Time.cal (V1.0) - Update NOTE events to be the last events on a given tick (delete them and reinsert them.) This can be used to undo the damage "Bounce to Clip" can sometimes do.
• Invert Chord.cal (V1.1) - Script to do the first inversion of a chord
• Keep Bottom of Chord.cal (V1.1) - Simple script to keep the bottom note of a chord, a chord is denoted as a set of notes that start at the same time (not necessarily are playing at the same time)
• Keep Top of Chord.cal (V1.2) - Simple script to keep the bottom note of a chord, a chord is denoted as a set of notes that start at the same time (not necessarily are playing at the same time)
• Real Drums.cal (V1.0) - This CAL will prevent the curse of the octopus drummer. It will keep only drum hits that don't violate having only two arms. Idea by Lars. Any notes within a priority group will be first come first serve (the earlier of two notes will be kept.) Any notes with differing priority will be dropped in favor of the lower priority. This script is based on the GM drum mapping.
• SID Chord.cal (V1.2) - Script to generate the arpreggio effect as the SID chip did. It will find all 3 note chords and render them to a center note with a rapid pitch bend envelope on top. All other notes will be deleted.
• Split Track by Instruments.cal (V3.2) - A really cool script to seperate out tracks by patch change messages. Lots of patch changes will slow it down, though it's MUCH faster than the original. It can't handle the data before the first patch change due to limitations in Cakewalk. It'll leave that as a seperate track. It also can't determine the starting bank, so any patch changes that don't specify will be -1. Aside from that it should work adequately. It will also perserve Wheel, Mod, Volume, and Expression across splits now.
• Volume To Expression.cal (V1.0) - Convert all volume events to expression events

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• TextPad CAL Syntax Definition (V1.0) - Add syntax highlighting for CAL to TextPad. This isn't perfect, but it helps make the code WAY more readable.

• Drum Roll Please (txt) (V1.0.0) - This script will map repetitious drum notes to a drum roll (on a different key) and will trigger a release note on ending the drumroll.

Tools:

These files can be loaded to your keyboard using something like MIDI-Ox. The patch will be loaded into the buffer so to keep it you'll have to save it to some location using STORE. They contain tweaks I did to improve the sound and the volume of the patches. I tried to stay near the character of the original but make it have a bit more depth and expressiveness. At some point I'll probably post more.

• Zip File of all of the files below
  
• A01 - EB_StrchGndPf
• A02 - EB_StrchRichP
• A03 - EB_StrchTghtP
• A04 - EB_BrghtGrand
• A05 - EB_60's Grand
• A06 - EB_60's Jazz
• A07 - EB_Timeworn
• A08 - EB_ChorusMono
• A09 - EB_Phono
• A10 - EB_GrandDyno
• A11 - EB_RhodyGrand
• A12 - EB_PercPiano
• D01 - EB_AmbiGrnd - This isn't in relation to the original to this slot

This is my first run attempt to create a remote panel for the S80. It has no feedback from the synth so you have to work blind, but it works decently as a remote control.

This System Exclusive (SysEx) sets the S80 into performance mode. Usually you want to send this before any of the other SysEx banks.

This System Exclusive (SysEx) sets up a performance where you can select from any bank on the synth and the effects are patched to be channel 2.

This System Exclusive (SysEx) sets to performance mode, sets up a performance where you can select from any patch in EXT (but can't bank change out of it), and sends a GM system reset. This should be used with EGM or GM banks for proper results. Effects are on Channel 1.

This System Exclusive (SysEx) sets up a performance where you can select from any bank, the effects are on channel 2, and channel 1 is assigned to the PLG150PF board in plugin slot 1.

This tool (for Windows 9X/NT/2000) allows you to manage the banks on your S80. Also allows for local editing of S2A, S2E, and S2V files.