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Re: [disklavier] Re: Midi File Channel

2019-08-07 by Spencer Chase

I also write little perl programs to do this stuff. My list midi events program lists sysex messages as well as most others

On August 6, 2019 3:50:26 PM MST, "Mark Fontana mark@... [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>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‘s 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‘s
>formats.
>>
>> Carol Beigel
>> Web Bug from 
>>
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>>
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>
>>
>> 

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