[PD] MIDI in vanilla?

[Christof Ressi]

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.

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 :-)

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.

Christof

On 26.10.2020 11:11, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 03:32 -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
>
>> 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)?
> 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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