Muse has the concept of a "performance" MIDI file or an "exchange" MIDI file.
The implementation is nothing too special, but I think this concept is the right way to go. For instance, in an exchange MIDI file all the notes will be exactly the lengths that you'd expect from looking at the dots (e.g. if a hornpipe is notated even and played dotted then the notes in the exchange file are even). Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Nordberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 5:56 AM Subject: Re: [abcusers] The > symbol and abc2midi Phil Taylor wrote: > > >You've got BarFly, which can create MIDI itself, so why do you need > >to bother with abc2midi? > > BarFly creates midi by first making a QT movie, then using Quicktime to > convert that to midi. Since Quicktime has no notion of key, time signature > or even what length of notated note corresponds to a given duration, the > resulting midi causes untold pain to music notation programs, although it > plays beautifully. That's right. BarFly makes some of the best automatically created midi files there are for playback, but they're completely useless for conversion purposes. > > Something else I'm going to fix soon... Great, as long as you remember not to throw the baby out with the bathwater! Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
