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Re: MIDI Files in BIN Format

Date1997-08-26 23:22
FromFernando Manuel Rodrigues
SubjectRe: MIDI Files in BIN Format

Just to make everybody sure. I have both a Mac and a PC working side by
side, and I am doing it all the time. It is very simple. Just make the
sequence on your sequencer (no matter which one it is). Then save it as a
standard MIDI file.
Since between conversion from Mac to PC (any Mac now, since Mac OS 7.1
should be able to read and write DOS formatted floppy disks) the mac
truncate the names to the standard 8.3 character format, be sure to name the
standard MIDI files you crate with xxxxxxxx.MID (the extension MID here is
the most important thing, since the Mac OS uses a fork data in the header
file to recognize the file type and creator, but DOS/Windows rely on the
extension to that).
And that's it. With that name and the standard MIDI file format you should
be able to play it with ANY PC. And even some hardaware sequencers use this
file/name standard too.
DO NOT USE ANY KIND OF CONVERSION, OR ANY EXTENSIONS OTHER THAN .MID, OR IT
WILL NOT BE RECOGNIZED.
JUST DRAG AND DROP TO THE DOS FLOPPY.