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Come to think of it, Daniel, I would say you are right.  The Hotts controller's output would be like a combination of one of those keyboards (where you hold down one key and it jams in C major; hold down the key next to it and it jams in C minor) - and Band-In-A-Box.  

Expect much more musical, of course.  But your point about it's output being a bit different each time is probably correct.

This may be part of the magic of why Steven is trying to re-create it.

David




On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 6:49:29 AM, Daniel Forró <dan.for@...> wrote:
 
  
After some study about this particular software I see it's really something special and it can give interesting results. Question is how to convert data. I don't think it's possible to do directly from the floppy disk, if I understand well it uses special codes for scales, chords etc., and some kind of interactivity. I doubt the format was somewhere published... 

So maybe the only possibility would be to record MIDI output from Hotz software to the second sequencer in real time, and save or export it as MIDI file. At least one version (variation) of the music could be done this way - it's possible when played for the second time, music will be somehow different in some details.

And if I'm not wrong this software is still offered for 199 USD, let's suppose it's a version for newer Windows... It still should be compatible with older data files, or not?

Daniel Forro 

On 17 Dec, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Steve Weber wrote:

Not really Daniel, because when I first had heard these particular midi files, some of these arrangements sounded particularly like some brass quintet arrangements I had played before and was interested in seeing how they were scored.  Plus I really had enjoyed playing around with the Hotz Program on my computer.  Steve Weber
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>On Monday, December 16, 2013 5:48 PM, Daniel Forró <dan.for@tiscali.cz> wrote:
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>Isn't it loss of time? There are zillions of Xmas songs MIDI files on 
>the net... GM, GS, XG... some of them have very good arrangements.
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