Re: [abcusers] Exporting to Midi.
On 31 Mar 2004, at 00:53, Jack Campin wrote: Phil Taylor wrote: there is a bug in Quicktime 6 which causes long notes to be truncated (played staccato) when generating a midi file. If you can use Quicktime movie files instead of midi it's not a problem. Likewise if you can use a pre- OS X operating system you can use Quicktime 4 (last good one). The problem happens when the delta time for note lengths requires more than two bytes to express it, so another possible work around is to generate the midi file at a fast tempo to keep all delta times within two bytes, then use a midi editor to change the tempo. Yuck. And the duration required isn't all that long either. Is there a tool for bulk conversion of QT movie files to MIDIs? That would be easier if it existed. No, and if there were it would depend on Quicktime, and would suffer from the same bug as BarFly and Quicktime Player Pro. Just what has been going wrong with the QuickTime development process that they've shipped such buggy products for so long? The guys that designed Quicktime Music Architecture left Apple, and were not replaced. QTMA itself was not successful. Although it plays music beautifully it has a complex and confusing API, only really of interest to musician programmers (as opposed to those who just want to record and playback audio). Very few programs depend on it. The rest of Quicktime _has_ been successful, but the introduction of OS X with its built-in Core Audio has resulted in QTMA being sidelined. The last time I discussed these problems with an Apple engineer he said that I really ought to be using Core audio instead. Trouble is, CA starts with midi. I'd have to re-write my software to generate midi instead of a QTMA tune to use it, in which case I would have solved the original problem anyway! Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] File Conversion
Don, You've got me a bit puzzled here. I've been using MusicTime for years and had no problem exporting MIDI (.mid) files from it., or importing a MIDI file to turn into a score. What's the actual problem you're having - just in case I'm able to help at all. Kevin. Don Parrish-Bell wrote: Do I detect a bit of sarcasm there, Neil? Ok, so one part of my problem is easily solvable by various means (import a MIDI file to extract a workable source score), so my next question for all of you is does anyone know of a program that will record a MIDI stream that is being played through the sound card and store it into a MIDI file. Since Music Time seems too limited to export a score into a MIDI-formatted file, this might be a solution. thank you, Don At 11:17 PM 3/30/2004, you wrote: Oh yes, and if you find it useful, or are impressed by it's facilities, PLEASE let us all know! Thanks Neil To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] File Conversion
Thank you! I hadn't even thought of that ... and yet it seems such an obvious thing to do. We do have a Yamahi keyboard that should be able to do that. I will give that a try. Thanks again, Don At 09:50 AM 3/31/2004, you wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Don Parrish-Bell wrote: > so my next question for all of you is does anyone > know of a program that will record a MIDI stream that > is being played through the sound card and store it > into a MIDI file. Connect your sound card to a keyboard that can record a Midi stream onto a floppy disk. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* ABC Standard: http://abc.sourceforge.net/standard/ Chazzanut Online: http://www.chazzanut.com/ Synagogue Choir: http://www.ask-choir.org/ Business: http://www.amsterdamhotelspecials.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
Re: [abcusers] File Conversion
No sarcasm at all, a genuine request for positive feedback. I don't know of such a program, but might be able to write one. The only difficult point is finding out how to assign the data stream. Once that is done, I can easily capture the MIDI events to a file. At 06:29 PM 3/31/04, you wrote: Do I detect a bit of sarcasm there, Neil? Ok, so one part of my problem is easily solvable by various means (import a MIDI file to extract a workable source score), so my next question for all of you is does anyone know of a program that will record a MIDI stream that is being played through the sound card and store it into a MIDI file. Since Music Time seems too limited to export a score into a MIDI-formatted file, this might be a solution. thank you, Don At 11:17 PM 3/30/2004, you wrote: Oh yes, and if you find it useful, or are impressed by it's facilities, PLEASE let us all know! Thanks Neil 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
Re: [abcusers] File Conversion
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Don Parrish-Bell wrote: > so my next question for all of you is does anyone > know of a program that will record a MIDI stream that > is being played through the sound card and store it > into a MIDI file. Connect your sound card to a keyboard that can record a Midi stream onto a floppy disk. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* ABC Standard: http://abc.sourceforge.net/standard/ Chazzanut Online: http://www.chazzanut.com/ Synagogue Choir: http://www.ask-choir.org/ Business: http://www.amsterdamhotelspecials.com/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] File Conversion
Do I detect a bit of sarcasm there, Neil? Ok, so one part of my problem is easily solvable by various means (import a MIDI file to extract a workable source score), so my next question for all of you is does anyone know of a program that will record a MIDI stream that is being played through the sound card and store it into a MIDI file. Since Music Time seems too limited to export a score into a MIDI-formatted file, this might be a solution. thank you, Don At 11:17 PM 3/30/2004, you wrote: Oh yes, and if you find it useful, or are impressed by it's facilities, PLEASE let us all know! Thanks Neil To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
