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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3812.0. "MIDI files from PC to Amiga?" by RIPPLE::LUKE_TE () Wed May 30 1990 13:23

    Anybody every tried taking a standard MIDI file created on a PC
    sequencer and copying it to an Amiga disk with CrossDOS or the likes
    and then loading it into an Amiga sequencer which accepts standard
    MIDI files?  It should work, shouldn't it?
    
    Terry
    
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3812.1should work, but might easily notSAUTER::SAUTERJohn SauterWed May 30 1990 15:057
    It should work, if you copy it in "image mode".  (That is, don't turn
    CRLFs into LFs.)  However, it might very well not work because of bugs
    in either the producer or consumer of the file.  Even on the Amiga I
    have not been able to write a non-trivial MIDI file with Music-X
    and read it back in without the music getting confused.  I don't know
    whether the reader or writer is at fault, but something's wrong.
        John Sauter
3812.2 SMF works for meWILARD::ROSCETTIA Spurious Char@cterTue Jun 05 1990 17:2214
    
    I trade Midi sequences fairly regularly between an Amiga (using
    Music-X) and an Atari-ST. I have had no problems other than the
    actual limitations of SMF. ( note on/off, velocity, tracks, all
    come out fine). I generally avoid patch changes and tempo data
    The synths on each system are different, so Patch changes are
    useless anyway
    
    I have never tried actually trading disks. All transfers were done
    using either Kermit or Xmodem. Usually with a Vax as the intermediary.
               
    
    Brien
    
3812.3SMF?SAUTER::SAUTERJohn SauterTue Jun 05 1990 17:303
    What's SMF?  I think .0 is referring to MIDI File Format, which I've
    always heard abbreviated as MFF.
        John Sauter
3812.4 A rose by any other name still smells.MCDONL::ROSCETTIA Spurious Char@cterWed Jun 06 1990 15:4714
    
    SMF = Standard Midi File
    
    I have heard it called all kinds of things - Standard Midi files,
    Midi File Format, Midi File Standard, Etc. We're talking about the
    same thing.
    
    Perhaps SMF is the spec that defines MFF. or vice/versa.
    
    I guess it says a lot about a Standard when even the name is
    questionable :^)
    
    brien