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Author:  David Luebbert Posted:  9/2/09; 10:25:06 PM Msg#:  5667 (top msg in thread) Prev/Next:  5666/5668 Reads:  404

Here I've taken a Tunetext specification of a melody and changed the instrument that performs this score to be a Standard Drum Kit, instrument number 16384. Now the different pitches of the original melod select different sounds that can be played by that drum kit.

Here's the Melody Voice 1 parameter list:

'inst:16385,/8,eb,eb,eb,eb,*4,/3,d,d,d,*3,/2,c,c,*2,/8,eb,eb,eb,eb,*4,/3,d,d,d,*3,/2,c,c'

The instrument parameter that's colored red here makes the interpreter perform the idea with a Drum Kit.

Make sure you press the "Loop Tunetext" button that appears in the Tunetext form when you click on these scores.

Click on music to play    Submitted on 8/30/09; 1:29:09 PM  by David Luebbert

For the Tunetext Button below, I tell the interpreter to build all of the notes of the rhythm on the pitch 'g' in the fourth octave and then give a list of fractions that cause the notes to be built on 'g'. This pitch is assigned to a bell sound in the Standard drum kit.

Here's the Melody Voice parameter list I used:

'inst:16385,use:g,1/4,1/12,1/12,1/12,1/16,1/16,1/8,1/28,1/28,1/28,1/28,1/28,1/28,1/28'

Click on music to play    Submitted on 8/30/09; 1:32:09 PM  by David Luebbert

Now I change the pitch used 4 times which causes four diferent sounds from the drum kit to played in sequence. I've inserted 'use:' parameters at change pitch, which changes the drum sound, at the beginning of each beat in the score.

Here's the parmlist:

'inst:16385,use:g,1/4,use:d,1/12,1/12,1/12,use:e,1/16,1/16,1/8,use:a,1/28,1/28,1/28,1/28,1/28,1/28,1/28'
Click on music to play    Submitted on 8/30/09; 1:33:55 PM  by David Luebbert

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