Subject:  frantic.mid and frantic.syx files
Author:   Greg Youngdahl  (greg@ihlpm.att.com)

	In the interests of sharing some musical inspiration with other
members of the JV80 list, and to perhaps provide a starting point for
some musical collaboration among us, I humbly submit the two files
mentioned.  This is a very basic and crude sequence I created with the
intention of sharing with the list.  Hopefully it will at least provide
some inspiration to someone else who can contribute some additional parts.
This is nowhere near a finished product (or even part of one).  As it
stands it probably gets a bit monotonous, and has some timing and other
errors in it (or hey, maybe they are "features" ;-)  Perhaps someone would
be interested in adding additional parts to fill it out more and make it
interesting (it could probably use a bridge, or some "middle eight" part,
and perhaps a modulation to another key or ???, and some trimming of
existing parts), or maybe pieces of it could be lifted and re-organized into
a different arrangement.  Maybe a few measures of the bass part (or whatever)
could be the start of something completely different, or maybe it is just a
bunch of trash.  I'm just trying to start the ball rolling.  It isn't
something I'm holding up as a great work, or anything like that, but more
like a piece of clay that can be molded into something pleasing.  Another
useful purpose would be to establish some groundwork and/or guidelines and
to discover problems in the process needed to effectively do some of the
collaboration and sharing of ideas on the list, as we have been discussing.
We have to start somewhere, so this is my first proposal.

	Here is what I've provided.  In the FRANTIC.MID file are three
tracks.  One track is just a bass drum (a rather frantic one - hence the
name).  To that I added a bass guitar on a second track, and finally the
third track is a rather loose synth part using the Von Greece patch that
comes stock on my JV-880 (as do all three instruments).  The Von Greece
patch tends to sustain and pan randomly between the channels, and I just
played a rather percussive riff to establish some notion of chord changes
and motion.  As it stands the piece lasts just shy of 5 minutes, but as I
said, it gets rather monotonous, and isn't necessarily intended to survive
in its present form, but more to contain some building blocks for further
development.  It starts out with several measures of introduction and
buildup, then goes into the main theme, goes off on a tangent, back to the
main theme a couple more times, and then kind of dismembers itself into an
ending.

	The FRANTIC.SYX file contains the Temproary Performance parameters
that I created for the piece.  It has all of the performance information,
including the Performance messages, the 7 Patches (only 2 of which are
actually used so far), and the drum kit.  All the tones are stock JV tones,
no expansion boards or PCM cards are needed.  You should be able to load
the FRANTIC.SYX file into your JV and then play the song, with the result
sounding the same as it did on my setup.  The SYSEX messages load into the
Temporary Performance buffers, and thus should not overwrite anything of
value in your JV (unless you have just edited a performance, and haven't
saved it somewhere).  I don't have any software that will allow me to embed
the SYSEX messages into the .MID file (my PowerTrax Pro will save the SYSEX
data in its own .SEQ format and automatically load it to the JV when loading
the sequence, but won't save it in a .MID file - also PTP seemed to have
trouble receiving the full dump from the JV, and thus I had to collect the
dump with a DOS program (MDF found at pacrim in the Tools directory) and
then get PTP to read that file.  I think it may be a good procedure in
general to provide these as two separate pieces when submitting things to
the list because there may be several people (such as myself) whose software
may have trouble handling the SYSEX messages embedded in the .MID file.  On
the other hand, if I'm the only one, then maybe I'd better upgrade my SW ;-)

	So here it is.  Hopefully it will inspire someone to do more with
it.
