[PD] Question About [Mrpeach/Midifile] Status

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Sun May 29 01:28:33 CEST 2022


oh, original message was written by David , not me, see:
https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2022-04/131117.html

Em sáb., 28 de mai. de 2022 às 20:27, Alexandre Torres Porres <
porres at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Hi, I have a third MIDI reading/writing external besides cyclone/seq and
> midifile, it's else/midi. It is based on cyclone/seq and has a different
> design/functionalities. It's been in my to do list forever to also
> incorporate the functionalities from midifile, like being able to write
> different tracks and meta-data. I am finally doing this now! It should
> still take a while though... this will also imply an overhaul into
> else/midi. I guess now I'll actually base the external on [midifile] and
> build on top of it different functionalities and design. I think midifile
> is really hard to use and I'm making it much more convenient and more like
> what else/midi currently is.
>
> I will also make it export the midi sequence to a text file that can be
> used in [text sequence] like [else/midi] does and I am also working on a
> way to export to a text file that is suitable for my new [else/score]
> object, which is esier to use and more musically convenient than [text
> sequence].
>
> I will post about it here soon when I have a better prototype, right after
> I make tests on writing midi files. I haven't made the code available yet,
> I started on it this week and in about a month I should have a new external
> up! So far I have taken care of the reading part. As you can see, I have
> big plans on providing what I consider to be finally "midi files done
> right" for Pd. I basically rewrote midifile from scratch and was able to
> remove more than 300 lines of code and still keep the same functionalities
> and include new ones. Now one just needs to click on a toggle to start/stop
> playing the midifile, no need to harvest metadata to find out a tick tempo
> value to feed a metro object.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Em sáb., 28 de mai. de 2022 às 20:07, Alexandre Torres Porres <
> porres at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> Hi! Is anyone still supporting the MrPeach external, in particular,
>> [mrpeach/midifile]? I've had no luck creating MIDI files, except for the
>> most trivial of examples. If I try to play back the file, I just get a
>> stream of error messages like the following: midifile: No running status on
>> track 0 at 957 And if I try to play it back using [cyclone/seq], I get the
>> following error messages: seq's warning: missing running status in midi
>> file... skip to end of track seq's warning: no valid miditracks And if I
>> try to play the file with Windows Media Player, I get the following error:
>> Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file. I'd like
>> to use [mrpeach/midifile] rather than [cyclone/seq] because it seems to
>> have more features (ability to specify track numbers, save meta-data,
>> etc.). But if nobody is supporting it any more, maybe I'll just forget it.
>> I've posted questions on the forum ( https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/),
>> but so far I haven't been able to solve the problem. Also, if anyone knows
>> of more extensive examples of its use than what's in the help file, that
>> might be helpful too. But so far, Google hasn't turned up any.
>>
>
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