Re: midi output osx

[Graham Percival]

On 27-Jun-04, at 7:05 AM, Sean Reed wrote:
> i found this issue discussed in the archive list from may 5 to 8 2004, 
> with the suggested workaround of using the program "mighty midi", but 
> all of the links to "mighty midi" and its author have apparently since 
> then become obsolete and the program has simply disappeared without a 
> trace from the internet.

You can also use timidity (a unix MIDI -> wav program), although you 
need to play
with it a little bit to get it set up.

> any further hints on other workarounds? or perhaps any other free/open 
> midi players with adjustable tempo for mac os x that somebody can 
> recommend? or does perhaps somebody have a copy of the "mighty midi" 
> program that they can mail me? (all the links suggest it's only around 
> 170k).

I've got this program; uncompressed, it's 356k.  Want me to mail it to 
you?

> also, is this a mac specific problem? is there a fix in the works?

IIRC, there was some discussion about whether tempo changes belonged in 
track 0,
or whether they should be placed in all tracks.  I'm not certain which 
way Lilypond
does it, nor which way is the recommended way.  I got the impression 
that it wasn't
specifically an OSX problem; it was just that almost all midi programs 
for OSX didn't
pick up the tempo changes.

Cheers,
- Graham