27 Jan
2005
27 Jan
'05
3:51 p.m.
On Thursday 27 January 2005 00:07, Smith, Rob M \(GE Healthcare\) wrote:
My only question is - why would you want to convert
MIDI to text?
I assume this would mainly be a debugging tool?
Yes, it can be very useful for debugging purposes, but it is not limited to
that. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that John Walker lives in
Switzerland, but his tool is like a Swiss Army Knife.
More information:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/midicsv/
A little quotation from Fourmilab:
MIDI music files are a simple and elegant representation of musical
compositions, but are stored in a somewhat arcane binary format which is
difficult to process without specialised libraries. MIDICSV includes two
utilities, midicsv and csvmidi, which inter-convert MIDI files and
Comma-Separated Value (CSV) files preserving all information. CSV
representations of MIDI file may be loaded into spreadsheets and database
programs, and can be easily processed with text processing languages such as
Perl and Python. A variety of examples, written in Perl, illustrate
generation and transformation of MIDI music files in CSV format. Complete
source code in portable ANSI C and ready-to-run WIN32 executables are
available.
Regards,
Pedro
28 Jan
28 Jan
5:47 a.m.
> My only question is - why would you want to
convert MIDI to text?
> I assume this would mainly be a debugging tool?
I haven't looked into the tools yet. But appearently, it's midi2text and
text2midi. When I saw that, the first thing that ran thru my mind was
"what a great way for someone to be able to easily create a program that
uses these tools to do certain tasks" (like seperating different
instruments from a midi file into seperate tracks). I'm sure there's
more ways of using these tools. But that's the first thing that ran thru
my mind... A third program that preforms certain kinds of editing on
midi files. Maybe even batch processing.
Rocco
8:40 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] midicomp (yet another text 2 midi converter)
LinuxMedia wrote:
It's also interesting to be able to use standard linux shell
tools like grep and awk, plus any scripting language or any
text editor, to tweak and even create MIDI files from scratch.
There is another text to midi "compiler" here that I ported
from some older code a few years ago...
http://alsa.opensrc.org/midicomp/
There is even a pure PHP based implementation of the same old
codebase somewhere on the net... a neat way for a website to
manipulate MIDI files online.
--markc
> My only
question is - why would you want to convert MIDI to text?
> I assume this would mainly be a debugging tool?
I haven't looked into the tools yet. But appearently, it's midi2text and
text2midi. When I saw that, the first thing that ran thru my mind was
"what a great way for someone to be able to easily create a program that
uses these tools to do certain tasks" (like seperating different
instruments from a midi file into seperate tracks). I'm sure there's
more ways of using these tools. But that's the first thing that ran thru
my mind... A third program that preforms certain kinds of editing on
midi files. Maybe even batch processing.
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