'Louie Mastro - He Died For Your Freedom!'

Now I will show that the Mellow recording of Rain Dances on the Harbour of Joy cd, is really a playback of my sequence (with some modifications. The biggest modifications, it's clocked from a different MIDI device, so the tempo is different, and some instrument voices have been changed and they removed or muted one of the tracks (the SynBrass). They also removed some organ. The fade at the end is early. Also, the version (apparently) Tom/&y downloaded from AOL didn't have the Umbrella track that some later versions of my sequence have.)

So, because of the changes, it doesn't sound as much like my sequence, so the way to prove that it's mine, is to show you where they are the same, and how both of ours differ from the original Camel recording.

Basicly, what I did wrong, well 1st off, I have an arpeggio happening in the Strings track, that should be a real long sustain note. And the other error, is the low note of that arpeggiated chord. The red circled notes are mistakes, the blue circled notes are corrections, btw. So, I've doubled the arpeggio. Not only that, if you look at the larger circles in the strings example, you'll notice I copied the bad note of the arpeggio into the double. And the Mellow recording is EXACTLY like this.

Here is real audible evidence. Each .wav will take a couple of minutes at 28.8k baud, the .mid files, next to nothing. I suggest that you have all 4 files loaded in 4 separate media players so you can easily switch between them for your comparisons. You want to stop the player before it gets to the end (the first time it plays), that will keep it from closing when it finishes.

You can listen to how it sounds on the Camel recording - (arp_cam.wav)

And you can listen to how these tracks would've sounded if I did them correctly the first time - (arp_cam.mid)

And you can listen to how these tracks sound unrepaired, directly from my sequence - (arp_mast.mid)

And you can listen to the same things on the Mellow recording - (arp_mast.wav)

Another of these most obvious errors, is in the Pizzicatto from the middle of the track.

This example starts at about 1:08 into the cd/sample and continues to the end. The 3 measure repetition (after the 1st 4 measures) is repeated until the end. Listen for the 1st notes of the arpeggio in the 2nd and 3rd measures, my mistake.

In the Camel recording, they lose the low note of the arpeggio in the 2nd measure of the repetition (listen to the whole pizzicatto part to help to notice this.) In my sequence, I never lost the low note of the arpeggio. The Mellow playback seems to have removed some of the low notes of the arpeggio in order to disguise that it's really my sequence, but they didn't get Camel's repetition correct. But that doesn't say anything (comparitively.) The tell tell sign on this is the 4th error, the time shifted notes. For the 1st 4 measures, the low note of the arp. is before the 1 count, after the 1st 4 measures, that low note of the arp. comes in ON the 1. I didn't catch that, and neither did Mellow. These parts of Mellow's recording are exactly like my parts as shown with these examples, and are different from the original Camel recording.


You can listen to how it sounds on the Camel recording - (piz_cam.wav)

And you can listen to how this track would've sounded if I did it correctly - (piz_cam.mid)

And you can listen to how this track sounds unrepaired, directly from my sequence - (piz_mast.mid)

And you can listen to the same thing on the Mellow recording - (piz_mast.wav)

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