Sunday, Jan. 31, 1993


I have uploaded kopops.zip, a collection of 35 Korean pops songs in
midi format, to archive.epas.utoronto.ca:/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit.

I obtained these songs as ROL files from the proprietor of a Soundblaster
clone company in Seoul, who said that these had all been done by a Yonsei
University student. He gave me permission to do what I wished with them.

I used Winjammer to do the original conversion from ROL to midi, and I
used Cakewalk for Windows to do the rest. I want to give special thanks
to Mr. Yuri Lee of Waterloo, Ont. for his help with titles, singers,
and English translations of the titles. I have transcribed his notes into
the file 'filelist.txt' which is part of the kopops archive. Any mistakes
in that file are a result of my transcription, and not those of Mr. Lee.

Several of the songs I was unable to identify, or only to tentatively
identify. If you have more information, please let me know.

Please give me feedback, as I am working on archives of pop music from
France, Russia, China, and Japan.

For GUS owners, although I have used the GM instruments, there are several
patches (especially synth sounds) that are not yet available from Gravis,
but should be shipping soon, and there are several others (such as sound
effects) that are inadequate, and hopefully will soon be upgraded - so
if you play a song that uses the missing patches and get a great deal of
silence, just wait until you get the complete GM patch set and try again!

Enjoy!


     John Cowles        cowles@hydra.convex.com
                        Convex Computer Corp.  214 497 4375
                        3000 Waterview Pkwy
                        Richardson, Tx. 75080