I mentioned before that I find MidiToStyle as a nice to have tool, with many (incl. CASM) settings from StyleCreator... and most important, it works.
I create styles in StyleCreator and we know it's kinda slow process. There are many midi files available and some of them are probably
good enough to be used for creating styles. So I asked myself, maybe I should stop wasting time with StyleCreator and start using MidiToStyle instead... at least for
simple styles that I wish to have. I mean, if midi file is there, why not, right?
And so I decided to make a test. I created very simple style in StyleCreator (C key, tempo 80, 1bar measure, piano voice). Actually it's very useful style which can be used as basis for many popular songs -that's why name "Fats Domino experiment".
I played a song with that style and recorded it as midi and then copied midi to PC, where I removed channels that are irrelevant for this experiment. So I ended with midi which only contains piano sequence for style and sax for melody playing. Then I copied resulting midi back to keyboard and recorded an audio file which contains only midi playing -just to make sure that midi is working & sounding properly.
You can download both files (midi and mp3) here:
FatsDomino mid & mp3(click
Download on upper left corner)
The challenge for you: can you to create a style by using that midi with MidiToStyle? Again, it's only a
simple piano rhythm that needs to be converted.. which shouldn't be a problem...
Bogdan