THE BEATLES - various MIDI files.

ALL IN GENERAL MIDI FORMAT (Drums Channel 10 etc.)

This is an edited collection of the various Beatles files knocking around the Internet - I've tweaked a few notes, changed a few program sounds (or 'patches' as I believe you GUS guys like to call them), converted from various formats and saved them all in MIDI format 1  - i.e. multiple tracks with each track named by the part on it. All these files are of course (c) Michael Jackson or whoever else owns the copyright, and so are not allowed to be lent, sold etc. for commercial gain.

Many many thanks to all the people who sequenced these originally - some of the text files have been separated from these sequences somewhere along the line and I apologise profusely to their original transcribers for not crediting them.

The files are - 

BECAUSE.MID  -  Because (!??)
BIRTHDAY.MID - (you say it's your) Birthday - converted from MT-32 format
CANTBUYM.MID - Can't buy me love - translated from the brash synthy version on the archive
ELEANOR.MID - Eleanor Rigby - Nice acoustic & stringy arrangement - none of those multiple drum tracks that seem to be on all the versions (four in total?)  I've come across.
FOOLHILL.MID - Fool on the Hill - Quiet acoustic version - apologies for the voicings if they're wrong - my Beatles compilation tape was eaten by the dog.
GUITRWEP.MID - While my Guitar Gently Weeps - converted from MT-32
HEY_JUDE.MID - no , go on guess.
HONEYPIE.MID - ditto
I_WILL - ditto ditto
IMWALRUS - I am the Walrus
LETITBE.MID - Let It Be - storming organ solo.
OBLADIDA.MID - Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da etc.
PENNYLAN.MID - Penny Lane
STRAWBRY.MID - Strawberry Fields Forever - excellent version of a great song (sorry to be so sycophantic)
YESTERDY.MID - Yesterday - nice quiet acoustic version, as it should be.


All these were downloaded at some point over the last six months and converted via a 2.5Mb Atari STFM running a (legitimate) version of Cubase v.2.
All voicings, pannings, reverb levels, chorus levels etc. are embedded in each track so those of you with exotic sound cards or synth modules that don't like them will have to dig 'em out and sort 'em out. Sorry.
Tested on Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 (mark 1 I think -anyway, the first one that came out)
for GM compatability - and they all work.

One final plea - will those of you nice enough to upload MIDI stuff onto the Internet, actually send it in a format we can all use - i.e. Standard MIDI Files (that's why they're called Standard!) - I can just about convert from Cakewalk .WRK format but anything else is pretty much impossible - surely the more people who can get your hands on your sequence the better. Unfortunately we don't all have P.C.'s running obscure sequencers. Otherwise I'll start sending stuff in Atari Cubase Arrangement format and let's see you convert that one.

PLEASE E-MAIL ANYTHING - comment, criticisms, 'you didn't credit me with that sequence and I'm going to sue' etc. to :
               
          zchag05@ucl.ac.uk  (valid until July 95)

Who knows, if enough people send me message, I may well upload some more stuff (original compositions etc. - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED)

Have a Fab-Four-Tastic time listening to these.
Enjoy !!

ALEXI

P.S. If anyone out there has any MIDI sequences for Peter Gabriel (NOT Sledgehammer), Depeche Mode, Thomas Dolby, or The The, could they please drop me a line ? I'd love to hear from you; no, really I would. Ta.