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Re: understanding midi files


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: understanding midi files
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:12:38 +0100
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Phil Hézaine <address@hidden> writes:

> Le 26/01/2014 22:32, address@hidden a écrit :
>>   I'm experimenting with midi file to lilypond conversion since
>> midi2ly creates files that are hard to read for me, and thus makeing
>> it hard to use its output. Yes I can write a program to tidy up its
>> output, and I did so, but looking at the dump of a midi file with
>> this simple program:

[...]

>> I started to experimenting extracting e.g. header data etc. in
>> the program:

[...]

> Perhaps you don't know midicomp.
> Here the latest version:
> https://github.com/markc/midicomp
>
> It gives you all information on a midifile.
> As you know Perl there is a tiny exemple to use it with midicomp in
> the README.
> Perhaps it's worth to try a nice conversion to ly-code.

Uh, this is awkward, but you do know that the LilyPond distribution
comes with a program called lilymidi which you can use like

lilymidi --pretty somefile.midi

in order to get a readable representation of a Midi file?

-- 
David Kastrup



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