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Originally posted by Dreamer:
Hi Comalite J,
thank you for your exhaustive reply; I just wonder why are you always using in your threads this typo character which makes reading more difficult.
Thank you again

“Typo char­ac­ter”!? I have no idea what you’re talk­ing about. Are you see­ing some sort of gar­bage sym­bol char­ac­ter? If so, it’s not show­ing up on my screen and I have no idea why you’d be see­ing such a thing.

On the oth­er hand, if you’re re­fer­ring to the type­face (aka. “font”), i. e. a “type of” (“type o’” aka. “typo”?), well, that“s for a rea­son. I ab­so­lute­ly hate Ari­al and Hel­vet­ica and sim­il­ar sans-ser­if fonts be­cause they make the low­er-case “L” and the up­per-case “i” look iden­tic­al, or so close there­to that most people can’t tell the dif­fer­ence (see for yourself: “Rick Springfield, III lives in Springfield, Ill.” vs. “Rick Springfield, III lives in Springfield, Ill.” >. On my screen, this For­um de­faults to Ver­da­na, which, despite be­ing sans-ser­if, does dis­ting­uish be­tween those two let­ters, but not ev­er­y­one has that font in­stalled (it does come with In­ter­net Ex­plor­er 4 or la­ter for both Win­dows and Mac) and if it isn’t it will like­ly be sub­sti­tu­ted with Ar­i­al or Hel­vet­ica. I did­n’t want to take that chance. In­stead, I sup­ply a list of fonts in order of pref­er­ence to in­sure that, no mat­ter what plat­form my posts are viewed un­der, they will al­ways show up in a good-look­ing font that does­n’t con­fuse the looks of those two let­ters.

DonM, while the MIDI ver­sion does in­deed re­quire VL hard­ware (note that this in­cludes a 9000­Pro equipped with a PLG-150VL card!) or soft­ware to sound its best, it is play­able on any XG de­vice (but the sax ef­fect, the point of this Topic, won’t be an­y­where near as good as it would be with VL). Still, though, since the sax sound is so im­por­tant and so few peo­ple here have VL equip­ment, I did a di­rect re­cord­ing right off the sound card’s MIDI using the sound card’s own au­dio (to do that, select “Ster­eo Out” as your Re­cord­ing source in the Vol­ume Con­trols DS-XG Mix­er that comes up if you right-click on the lit­tle yel­low speak­er icon over by the clock dis­play, usu­al­ly on the right side of your Win­dows task bar) and re­cord­ed the MIDI play­back di­rect­ly to a .WAVe au­dio file, and used the free Win­dows Me­dia En­co­der 4.2 to en­code that into a .ASF file using the Vox­Ware Mu­sic Co­dec which comes with it (and which is no long­er av­ail­ab­le in Win­dows Me­dia En­co­der 7 and up) for min­im­al loss of qual­i­ty. The re­sul­ting file will play on any Win­dows or Mac mach­ine equipped with Win­dows Me­dia Play­er 6.4 or lat­er. It is, how­ev­er, a much big­ger down­load than the MIDI file (3.9MB vs. 86kB), though not any­where near the size of the raw .WAVe file! Note also that I’ve im­proved the MIDI since you last heard it (some MIDI set­up in­struc­tions were not com­plete so that while it sound­ed okay on my sys­tem, it was not guar­an­teed to do so even on an­oth­er sim­il­ar­ly-equipped sys­tem), so check it out again!

[This message has been edited by COMALite J (edited 07-30-2001).]