WELS: [Welstech] Welstech Digest, Vol 40, Issue 3

Wed Jun 10 14:00:12 CDT 2009

So have you liturgy files saved too? I could have our organists play
the whole liturgy through and save to a midi file, but I was hoping to
save some time. Also what do you use to play the files off of the
laptop?

Steve Daley

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Pastor Guenther Trinity
Lutheran<pastorg at trinitymarshfield.org> wrote:
> We do not have a program that creates midi files, but we do have access to
> files of hymns. We save the files on the computer, then copy the midi file
> hymns for a particular monday night service to a flash drive and then take
> the flash drive to a lap top and click and play. It works okay.
>
> Jon Guenther, Marshfield, WI
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>    1. Midi Files and Programs (Steve Daley)
>    2. Re: Midi Files and Programs (Timothy Wagner)
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> From: Steve Daley <pastordaley at gmail.com>
> Subject: WELS: [Welstech] Midi Files and Programs
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> Our congregation bought a Roland FP-7 which is a wonderful keyboard.
> We also bought the midi files for almost all of the hymns in CW from
> an online source. But I have a few issues:
>
> 1. Does anyone have the midi files created for the liturgies in
> Christian Worship, so that I don't have to have our organists record
> new midi files for all of those responses?
>
> 2. Does anyone know of an easy program that I can use that would allow
> me to set up a series of midi songs in a play list and then the
> operator could simply have to click to make the right song play
> through the keyboard?
> - The Roland FP-7 has nice play back features all by itself including
> this feature called "Audio Keys" where you can map the lowest keyboard
> keys to wave files. Of course to use that functionality you need to
> convert the midi's to waves (which under Windows does not seem very
> easy, but I can do that easily under Linux). Also, there are only so
> many keys that you can map to waves too, so with Liturgy responses I
> would have more "songs" than I could map to keys.
> - I know that Hymn Soft can do this, but since we have the hymns
> already, I would like to use a free or rather cheap program just for
> the playback. From what I understand the new Hymn Soft is not ready
> yet either.
> - Also I'm not sure if Hymn Soft actually plays it back through the
> Roland Tone Base on the FP-7.
>
> Any other midi help would be appreciated.
>
> Steve Daley
>
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> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:30:12 -0500
> From: Timothy Wagner <wagnertr at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: WELS: [Welstech] Midi Files and Programs
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> Steve & others,
>
>
>
> A program that works very well that we have used in both of the
> congregations I have served is Sonar (now on version 7) from Cakewalk.  It
> is not free however.  The list price is $139.  I don't know if there are
> dealers from which you can get it for less.  It allows you to create a
> playlist, adjust tempos, choose instruments from your keyboard, and
> create/add/delete/edit within the individual songs.  I think it is designed
> for those who compose music in a home studio.
>
>
>
> My wife, Elisabeth, has also learned very well the ins and outs of a MIDI
> system in the last few years and has expressed willingness to help other
> congregations.  If she can somehow be of service or answer questions, let me
> know.
>
>
>
> Pastor Tim Wagner
>
>
>
>
>
> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:13:20 -0500
> From: pastordaley at gmail.com
> To: welstech at messenger.wels.net
> Subject: WELS: [Welstech] Midi Files and Programs
>
> Our congregation bought a Roland FP-7 which is a wonderful keyboard.
> We also bought the midi files for almost all of the hymns in CW from
> an online source. But I have a few issues:
>
> 1. Does anyone have the midi files created for the liturgies in
> Christian Worship, so that I don't have to have our organists record
> new midi files for all of those responses?
>
> 2. Does anyone know of an easy program that I can use that would allow
> me to set up a series of midi songs in a play list and then the
> operator could simply have to click to make the right song play
> through the keyboard?
> - The Roland FP-7 has nice play back features all by itself including
> this feature called "Audio Keys" where you can map the lowest keyboard
> keys to wave files. Of course to use that functionality you need to
> convert the midi's to waves (which under Windows does not seem very
> easy, but I can do that easily under Linux). Also, there are only so
> many keys that you can map to waves too, so with Liturgy responses I
> would have more "songs" than I could map to keys.
> - I know that Hymn Soft can do this, but since we have the hymns
> already, I would like to use a free or rather cheap program just for
> the playback. From what I understand the new Hymn Soft is not ready
> yet either.
> - Also I'm not sure if Hymn Soft actually plays it back through the
> Roland Tone Base on the FP-7.
>
> Any other midi help would be appreciated.
>
> Steve Daley
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