[PD] MIDI in vanilla?

[Josh Moore]

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.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 4:12 AM Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com> wrote:

> 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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