Hello All,
i have some MIDI files that i would read in Csound, but i don't know much of
MIDI.
i'm trying something like 'minimalism', where i have a infinite loop of a
phrase (a MIDI file) and then it start a second loop phrase (another MIDI
file) over the first, ecc.
i see that using -F flags is for reading one only MIDI file.
Is that possible and how?

Thanks,
ciao,
francesco.


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MIDI files are dead easy to play with Csound. You can do this

1) use option -F  to drive instruments from the MIDI file

2) if you don't want to bother with MIDI opcodes you can just use a  
straight mapping of velocity and
note number to p-fields e.g.:

--midi-velocity-amp=4    --midi-key-cps=5

which will map velocity to amp linearly and place it in p4 and note  
number to cps and
place it in p5.

Then you can just use these in your instruments. The default mapping  
would also connect
channel to instrument (but you can using massign to change it).

You get polyphony for free (no need for any extra programming).

Regards

Victor


On 31 Aug 2011, at 14:16, francesco wrote:

> Hello All,
> i have some MIDI files that i would read in Csound, but i don't know  
> much of
> MIDI.
> i'm trying something like 'minimalism', where i have a infinite loop  
> of a
> phrase (a MIDI file) and then it start a second loop phrase (another  
> MIDI
> file) over the first, ecc.
> i see that using -F flags is for reading one only MIDI file.
> Is that possible and how?
>
> Thanks,
> ciao,
> francesco.
>
>
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Thank You Mr. Victor,
but can i read more than one MIDI files in the same csd?

ciao,
francesco.


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I don't think so, but I never tried to see what happens. A solution is  
to have a MIDI file player sending events to a port, which you then  
open with Csound.
You can do that by setting up alsamidi software ports, which I have  
done in the past but can't remember exactly how it is done (Dave  
Phillips, please help!),
but you can check in the amidi man page.

Victor
On 31 Aug 2011, at 14:37, francesco wrote:

> Thank You Mr. Victor,
> but can i read more than one MIDI files in the same csd?
>
> ciao,
> francesco.
>
>
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$ amidi -p virtual-port

will create a port. Then you can use aplaymidi  to send data to that  
port.

and

csound  -M virtual-port

should catch the data in Csound.

Victor

On 31 Aug 2011, at 14:44, Victor Lazzarini wrote:

> I don't think so, but I never tried to see what happens. A solution  
> is to have a MIDI file player sending events to a port, which you  
> then open with Csound.
> You can do that by setting up alsamidi software ports, which I have  
> done in the past but can't remember exactly how it is done (Dave  
> Phillips, please help!),
> but you can check in the amidi man page.
>
> Victor
> On 31 Aug 2011, at 14:37, francesco wrote:
>
>> Thank You Mr. Victor,
>> but can i read more than one MIDI files in the same csd?
>>
>> ciao,
>> francesco.
>>
>>
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>
> Dr Victor Lazzarini
> Senior Lecturer
> Dept. of Music
> NUI Maynooth Ireland
> tel.: +353 1 708 3545
> Victor dot Lazzarini AT nuim dot ie
>
>
>
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Ah, ah!
then Csound is not perfect!
I will go to buy something more professional...
(obviously i'm joking)

Thank Mr. Victor, i will try to see how suggested.

ciao,
francesco.


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I was probably wrong in my amidi prescription, which was untested and  
from memory. I think you might need to load up virmidi:
See this tutorial:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/MIDI-HOWTO.html


On 31 Aug 2011, at 14:55, francesco wrote:

> Ah, ah!
> then Csound is not perfect!
> I will go to buy something more professional...
> (obviously i'm joking)
>
> Thank Mr. Victor, i will try to see how suggested.
>
> ciao,
> francesco.
>
>
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