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Re: [disklavier] Re: Midi File Channel

2019-08-06 by Mark Fontana

To inspect the events in MIDI files, I tend to use an ancient MusicQuest 
command line program from the early 1990s, strictly out of habit, but a 
quick and easy way would be to use this web-based tool:

http://valentin.dasdeck.com/midi/mid2txt.php 
<http://valentin.dasdeck.com/midi/mid2txt.php>

Some of its event names diverge from more accepted MIDI terminology 
("Par" = Control Change, 0xBn),� ("PoPr" = Aftertouch (Polyphonic 
Pressure), 0xAn) but this still looks reasonably useful for a quick 
inspection.

Some programs for converting back and forth between MIDI files and 
text-based formats are:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mf2t/
https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/midicsv/
http://www.archduke.org/midi/
https://github.com/mtolly/midiscript

I haven't used any of them personally, but they all look to require some 
degree of comfort using command-line tools.
I tend to write little C or Perl programs to manipulate MIDI files when 
the need arises.

Mark Fontana


On 8/6/19 6:39 AM, Carol Beigel carol@... [disklavier] wrote:
>
> Thank you for your explanation of how this software can work. �Except 
> for changing a note\u2018s pitch and timing using Logic, I have never been 
> anywhere near competent in using sequencing software.
>
>
> What software do you use that you can see all those events in a MIDI file?
>
> Can you recommend a software program that does that MIDI to text and 
> back again function?
>
> As always, I am so grateful you wrote the utility for converting the 
> ESEQ to MIDI files on the floppy disks people purchased for their 
> Disklavier so they can continue to enjoy their music on today\u2018s formats.
>
> Carol Beigel
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