[DECtalk] A MIDI Transcript I have created

[Blake Roberts]

Thank you for the midi you created and story that goes with it, Ulysses. 
I enjoyed hearing that midi. I'm attaching, for anyone who hasn't heard, 
Flint Million's VocalWriter version of Let It Snow. I have been 
impressed for years by VocalWriter's realistic sound and vocal range 
(higher than DecTalk's 3 octaves). I have always been amazed by what 
Flint was able to do with VocalWriter in covering songs. I never used 
VocalWriter myself, since it is/was for Mac and I'm on Windows.

Anyway, I hope some of you enjoy the VocalWriter attachment. I renamed 
Flint's mp3 as "let it snow VocalWriter.mp3" to help listeners identify 
the synthetic system used if they choose to save the file.

Blake



On 11/24/2023 9:51 AM, Ulysses Harmony Garcia via Dectalk wrote:
> Hello y'all,
>
> I usually don't post here, but I wanted to share with you a winter 
> holiday song that I found way back in 2009, and which has since then 
> been my favourite rendition. In fact, I loved it so much that I even 
> offered it to a potential a cappella group that I had once signed up 
> to audition for, just before COVID hit. I unfortunately don't have it 
> in sheet music form, but given that it's now in MIDI format, the 
> possibilities of creating one are endless!
>
> Even though my hearing was much better than it it is now, I had a lot 
> of trouble in deciphering each of the five different voice parts and 
> what they were doing, for my knowledge of music theory was also quite 
> limited, and I therefore assumed there were only four voice parts (I 
> had tried using a karaoke centre pan removing feature in Audacity). 
> What I didn't realise, until many years later, was that it had 
> consequentially removed a fifth voice part that was crucial to adding 
> that unique texture that I had so long craved to replicate. Since I 
> already had a working MIDI file that I had previously created with 
> QWS, it was only a matter of going back and add the missing part, and 
> at long last I had made a near exact copy of that song!
>
> The artistic director even agreed with me and said that it was 
> complex, dynamic, and fun! However, they wanted to know, for a host of 
> reasons, if I had been the original arranger, and I had to explain 
> that I hadn't been able to figure out who had been behind it, and that 
> I just happened to like it so much that I decided to transcribe it 
> into MIDI form. They said they'd add it to their song suggestions. 
> Well, since then we haven't been able to move forward because of loss 
> of revenue, thanks to COVID, so I don't know if we'll ever get a 
> chance to perform it.
>
> But I'm glad of one thing. A couple days ago, I was researching the 
> Internet Archive and Wayback Machine, and by some mere chance I 
> happened to stumble on this Reddit post about VocalWriter being 
> abandonware. It turns out that Flint Million, who was a heavy user of 
> it at the time, along with Hugh Emerson, had been inspired by hearing 
> a live a cappella version of that song, and so he ended up creating 
> his own cover!  What's more, he's hoping to bring back VocalWriter in 
> a whole new way, so I am including the link to the discussion, that 
> others who are interested may read. 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/abandonware/comments/p59cb6/vocalwriter_a_completely_abandoned_singing_vocal/
>
>
> Happy holidays,
>
>
> _Ulysses H. Garcia, KJ7ERC
>
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