[Pd] MIDI file anatomy

[Martin Peach]

Martin Peach wrote:

> I'm not sure if there's a standard way of doing microtonal music in 
> MIDI, i.e. do you use Pitch Bend on every note or Continuous Controller?
>
So I parsed the file lou.mid from 
http://works.music.columbia.edu/~chris/micromidi/ using midifile and 
find that here it's the pitch wheel on almost every note:
midifile: Parsing track[1]...
midifile: tick 0 delta 0 status C0 MIDI: 0xC0 2E: channel 1 Program 
Change: 46
midifile: tick 480 delta 480 status E0 MIDI: 0xE0 00 40 : channel 1 
Pitch Wheel 8192
midifile: tick 480 delta 0 status 90 MIDI 0x90 3C 63 : channel 1 Note 60 
On velocity 99
midifile: tick 960 delta 480 status 80 MIDI 0x80 3C 00 : channel 1 Note 
60 Off velocity 0
midifile: tick 3120 delta 2160 status E0 MIDI: 0xE0 12 34 : channel 1 
Pitch Wheel 6674
midifile: tick 3120 delta 0 status 90 MIDI 0x90 3D 4F : channel 1 Note 
61 On velocity 79
midifile: tick 3600 delta 480 status 80 MIDI 0x80 3D 00 : channel 1 Note 
61 Off velocity 0
...

Martin