music again

[cellio]

Thanks to Rob for solving my MIDI problem. After I posted I started pulling up old files for which I'd made instrument assignments so I could look up their numbers (narrowing the field some), but that only got me so far. Rob found the list. Thanks also to hobbitblue for pointing out that my new machine might not have come with new drivers.

Continuing the chain of strange technical foo, I just wrote a TIF file (native Windows thingy, apparently) so that I could email it to myself at work, where I can (with luck) distill it into PDF so I can in turn send it to the composer whose song I arranged in the first place, to see what he thinks of it. If he doesn't hate it, I'll give a copy to our cantorial soloist for consideration by the choir.

One of these days I should get myself some better tools. :-)

Comments

[geekosaur]

a TIF file (native Windows thingy, apparently)

Hm? TIFF used to be the standard graphics format for scanners, and is still used for computer faxes because the G3 fax format is modified TIFF. It was also the de facto portable graphics format in the 1980s. It's pretty big even with compression, so for most uses other file formats have superseded it. (Eventually its RLL compression was supplemented by Zip compression, but far too late.)

[cellio]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. There seems to be a print driver built into XP (which is new to me) that allows you to save as TIF.

And yeah, I noticed that the file took a while to move across the net. :-)