19 Jul
2010
19 Jul
'10
2:03 p.m.
On Monday 19 July 2010 13:52:24 Joan Quintana wrote:
I want to implement an idea. In stead of playing along
with my wind midi
controller the leading track with the rest of midi tracks (being slave of
the midi tempo), I would to program another way to play a midi file:
playing the lead track generate all the events of the rest of the tracks.
In this case the concept of the tempo changes, and need to be calculated
continuously to trigger the events. With this idea I will be free to play
the melody, and feel how the orchestra (the other tracks) follow me, and
not me following the orchestra (play along).
Is this a crazy idea? Could be feasible to program? Exist already something
similar?
I downloaded the source code of the pmidi project (a CLI midi player). Is
this a good starting point to implement the job?
Some years ago an automatic blues band was presented at LAC. While that didn't
synchronize to your immediate tempo-changes (which would be quite disturbing)
it synchronized to your over-all tempo changes quite well.
Maybe you can search the archives (or the net) and take that csound-code as a
basis?
I don't think think looking at pmidi is useful for anything but simple midi-
player...
Have fun,
Arnold