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nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:55 am

Heya,
I thought I might be able to get some information about 2 old VSTfx in this thread.
Are Northpole and Orange Vocoder available for Windows?
I mean the old original ones?
Cheers

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:26 am

1st result on google...
http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=510

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:06 am

Oh great-
I actually found that one,
cool to see they are a reputable resource.
So maybe the Orange Vocoder isn't available?
I could write to Prosoniq I guess.

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:14 am

i don't think orange vocoder was free was it?
anyway,here's some talk of re-releasing the windows version...
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... t=prosoniq

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:51 am

Thanks

I may write and see if I can buy a copy of the original Win version.

edit- actually that VST4Free link is only for Mac versions. I'll Google again

edit2-nope, both of these are not available for Win. I'll think about writing.

mztk · Post by **mztk** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:31 pm

spacedad wrote:cool stuff from jull,cheers jull.(no duk-duk,soz)

thanks 'Dad!!

great it has biosc-x8 in there.
we must to find the Duk-Duk!
Jull is/was a member here, maybe he still has.

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:51 pm

nix808 wrote:Thanks

edit- actually that VST4Free link is only for Mac versions.

http://www.sonicspot.com/northpolerezfilter/npole.zip

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 2:23 pm

omg!
I'll try it again now that I know what cut does 8D
Filed safely away indeed
Works in Win7 64-bit peeps

Mighty thanks

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:26 pm

and thanks for your plugins too,nix!

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:08 pm

Hey no worries!
It's cool to have something I enjoy doing.
Pretty much everything I have released is slightly buggy,
but I have been clocking in the hours trying to chase down all the problems,
and I am having some successes and some frustrations-
but on the whole things are shaping up.
I will post a whole bunch of updates soon.
My Rekkerd site is so outdated now,
but I don't know whether to keep all my stuff there,
or build my own site and try and support myself a touch(payed full versions).
We'll see,
but the plugs are getting better.

If you have any faves you would like the updates for, please pm, all.

Sounddigger · Post by **Sounddigger** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:08 pm

eidenk wrote:Hehe, first time I tried DOSBox (I don't need it on my system)...

So this is what you could try:

Put the text file to be converted in the same directory as t2mf.exe.

Create a batch file (text file with a .bat extension) in the same directory as t2mf.exe with the following (example) content:

t2mf textfile.txt midifile.mid

Now drag your batch file onto the DOSBox executable and your textfile.txt should get converted to midifile.mid.

Voila!

Hi eidenk, thanks for your reply.

I've tried to do exactly what you've suggested, but I'm not getting results yet

After creating a text file with a text in the format you suggest, then saving it with the extention .bat, dragging it to either window opened by DOSBox does nothing.

I've also tried opening that .bat file from within DOSBox, loading it through prompts (and after also loading T2MF.EXE, which seems to be necessary, no? - I also tried without doing that first), but then I get an error message saying:

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1: Missing MFile - can't continue

Can't figure out what could be missing. The file is there, the text is what you suggested, adapted to the name of the file I'm testing with...

Meanwhile, I've tried a number of things, but nothing does it.

Apparently, the use of batch files with DOSBox is quite a hot issue, lots of videos available too, but it quickly gets too programmer oriented for me, without giving answers that seem to be of use here.

Maybe the text you suggested is not complete, and should contain other stuff as well...

mztk wrote:or maybe you can just change the extension? what does the textfile
contain?

Here is the header, some lines, and the endline of the textfile that gets created, from a test file I did:

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MFile 0 1 120
MTrk
0 Meta TrkName "Major      Mira fractal; a = .4459956; b = .9995201; c = 1.108009; x0= 0; y0= 12                                                                                                                                                                                          Compression Factor = 1"
0 Meta Copyright "03-27-2013 by The Well Tempered Fractal v. 3.0"
0 TimeSig 4/4 24 8
0 Tempo 600000
 0  On ch=2 n=57 v=64
 29  Off ch=2 n=57 v=64
 30  On ch=2 n=57 v=64
 59  Off ch=2 n=57 v=64
 60  On ch=2 n=62 v=64
 89  Off ch=2 n=62 v=64
 90  On ch=2 n=59 v=64

[...]

 54690  Meta TrkEnd

mztk wrote:there's another txt to midi/midi to txt utility somewhere..

was it the midiox program? maybe there's a newer version here:
http://www.midiox.com/

At http://www.midiox.com I found a version of T2MF for XP, that also runs on Win7 (which is what I use).

But it's totally unclear to me how to load that textfile into it.

When I drag the .txt file or .bat onto it, it seems to load, but does nothing with it. When I hit enter, the program shuts down, after briefly giving the message "Missing file".

For some of you it's probably easy to figure out what must be done, but I have very little experience with the old DOS programs, as I used to work on Atari and Mac in those days.

Anyway, thanks again for all help

Sounddigger · Post by **Sounddigger** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:20 pm

Here is a comment that was posted at http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/mf2t/

I love mf2t.exe and t2mf.exe. They work on xp and win7 (and many DOS files) work with DOSBOX.exe (download from http://www.dosbox.com/)

How? After loading DOSBOX, run several cross linked BATch files. See below for an example.

1st File: RunningDoxBox5.bat (see next for code in this batch file)

cd\
cd Program Files (x86)\DOSBox-0.74
C:\Users\RPower\Documents\EMusic\00Ron\0MorseCodeCwmidi\www.hitbit.com\demos\1001 Vienna Blood by Johann Strauss.mid >> C:\Users\RPower\Documents\EMusic\00Ron\0MorseCodeCwmidi\www.hitbit.com\demos\1001 Vienna Blood by Johann Strauss.txt" -c "pause" -c "rem exit"
DOSBox.exe -c "mount c C:\Progra~4\MusicC~1" -c "c:" -c "cd 1" -c "DosBox5" rem -c "pause" -c "rem exit"
exit

2nd File: DosBox5.bat (see next for code in this batch file)
0mf2t.exe 1001Vi~1.mid 1001Vi~1.txt
pause
0t2mf.exe 1001Vi~1.txt 1001Vi~2.mid
pause
dir/w *.*
pause
exit

Maybe I'm starting to get dislexic, but I can't make much sense of it

Should I simply copy these lines into files with the names suggested, and should it then work?

But then, how do I run the .bat file(s)?

eidenk · Post by **eidenk** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:34 pm

Sounddigger wrote:After creating a text file with a text in the format you suggest, then saving it with the extention .bat, dragging it to either window opened by DOSBox does nothing.

I did not mean to drag it on an opened DOSBox window but to drag it on the DOSBox.exe icon in Windows Explorer, sorry if that wasn't clear. Try it, it works fine here.

Sounddigger · Post by **Sounddigger** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 12:45 am

eidenk wrote:
Sounddigger wrote:After creating a text file with a text in the format you suggest, then saving it with the extention .bat, dragging it to either window opened by DOSBox does nothing.
I did not mean to drag it on an opened DOSBox window but to drag it on the DOSBox.exe icon in Windows Explorer, sorry if that wasn't clear. Try it, it works fine here.

Okay, when I do that, DOSBox launches and I get the following line in the prompts window (after lines about mounting the right drive/directory):

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C:\CALL T2TMFTESTBATCH2.BAT
Illegal command: T2TMFTESTBATCH2.BAT

T2TMFTESTBATCH2.BAT is the name of the test .bat file I made.

With T2MF for XP it's not any better, basically no result...

Thanks again!

eidenk · Post by **eidenk** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 12:51 am

Try giving your batch file a shorter name, no more than eight characters, and same should go for your input txt and output mid file, as DOS only supports 8+3 filenames.

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