Merry Christmas

Players

Fun for Macs and PCs

There is a really fun application from Tiger Technologies called "Holiday Lights" which will play your music and add festive decorations to your screen. I can't say enough kind things about it. I suggest that you give it a try.

It is possible to add my music to Holiday Lights by dropping the music files into the "Music" folder of Holiday Lights then restarting the application so the songs will be available.

For Macs

QTMidi Jukebox can play a whole folder at one click. I have included it with instructions that you can download if you choose. It was developed by Jim Blodget who teaches at Chemeketa Comunity College. This is a hyperstack. You will need HyperCard Player to use QTMidi Jukebox.

If you would like to have QTMidi Jukebox: Click here.

If you don't have Hypercard or Hypercard Player on your Mac. Hypercard Player is available at apple.com. If Hypercard Player will be new to your Mac simply store the whole folder anywhere on your hard drive.

For "experimenting" with QT 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 voices you need to download:

QT Midi Player 1.6 allows you to patch to your onboard synthesizer (Macs only) by using Apple Midi Player or OMS. This allows you to play the internal synth from the application you are working on. Many music applications never gave you a choice of using QuickTime Musical Instruments.

I've even gotten QT Midi Player to work on my iMac. Since older applications ask for a serial port (and you iMac users know there is none) this is the only way I could use a couple of my older applications; MusicShop being one of them. I set up QT Midi Player to access QuickTime. I then set up QuickTime to default to an external synth. The set up is a little tricky. Be persistent ..... I know it will work.

Arnold's Midi Player is one of my favorite tools. It allows me to mess around with midi files while using my internal synthesizer. Unfortunately Arnaud (Arnold) stopped supporting versions for 68k Macs. Then, relatively short time later, his site disappeared. (http://www.planete.net/~amasson/amp.html) What this means for us is there is no single site to download versions for PowerMacs and PCs. It is still possible to find and to pay for this wonderful shareware. If you like it (no matter where you find it) I urge you to pay for it. In the mean time I have these two applications for you to try.

These are stuffed and binhexed Arnold's Midi Players for Macs only. (Sorry PC owners.)

Browsers on Macs and PCs

Can be used to play any MIDI file. If you are hearing music on this page you are set up to play any midi file, but only one at a time. Your browser needs to be open, but you don't need to be connected to your isp. Navigate to the midi file you want to hear with your browser and open it.

Music Page for Macs & PCs

Has individual selections or the entire collection of Midi Christmas files (33 files) zipped

• They can be played on PCs using Holiday Lights.
• They can be played on PCs and converted for play on Macs.
• They can be played on external synthesizers.
• They are the same files as the "QT midi" files except for format.

Has individual selections or the entire collection of QuickTime midi movie Christmas files (33 files) binhexed

• They can be played on Macs using Holiday Lights.
• They can be played in the background using simpletext.
• They can be played by just double clicking on the file.
• They can be created from midi files. (How to do it)
• They are the same files as the "midi" files except for format.

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