<div dir="auto">I think it comes down to PD's horrible selection of array types. Having arrays with multi dimensions that can be a choice between int and float types signed and unsigned without conversion is what you need otherwise you will run into this wall all over the place and you're looking at a c compiler or interpreted language external to make what exists in almost every other language (ie make 16 arrays with 127 dimensions for each note with byte alignment containing n points or whatever) as three lines of code doable on a system that has only 2d arrays and float types. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 4:12 AM Christof Ressi <<a href="mailto:info@christofressi.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">info@christofressi.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I agree that we really need a way to read/write binary data. I
have already thought about doing a PR to add such functionality to
graphical arrays. It would be as simple as adding a flag to the
[read( and [write( methods.</p>
<p>In theory, it would be possible then to implement a MIDI file
reader/writer as a Pd abstraction. But to be honest, I think only
a masochist would do that :-)</p>
<p>On the other hand, mrpeach's [midifile] has always served me well
and it's one of those things that don't really get obsolete. So I
don't think that Pd really needs built-in MIDI file support. After
all, even a kitchen-sink language like Supercollider doesn't come
with built-in MIDI file support. </p>
<p>Christof<br>
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<div>On 26.10.2020 11:11, Roman Haefeli
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<pre>It feels to me Vanilla should be able to read/write MIDI files, but I
wonder how. Any ideas on how this could work in a "vanilla way"
(light and simple)?
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To use Miller's words from another thread, I think reading/writing MIDI
files would be an application for which the infrastructure is still
missing: reading from/writing to binary files (unless I missed some
recent development).
Both would be cool, accessing them from disk directly and load/dump
them to/from tables.
Roman
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