There's always a Perl program for composing MIDI files in a variety of
ways, programmable and all.  The name escapes me but I'm sure someone
else on the list has heard of it.

MS



---Larry Troxler  wrote:
>
> Sergey Batov wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I'm reading you conversation with interest and suddenly thought:
> > Csound can do MIDI-out. Is it possible to save this MIDI-out stream
> > as a standard MIDI-file? If it's so one can create some fantastic
> > (algoritmic)
> > compositions using any program language (BASIC, PERL, e.t.c.) and
transform
> > it
> > through Csound to MIDI-file. It's possible to do, of course,
directly
> > (without Csound)
> > but in this case it's necessary to learn MIDI-file format.
> > 
> > Excuse me if this "moment notice" seems too foolish...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Sergey Batov   batov@glasnet.ru
> > 
> 
> I'm wondering why you would need to use Csound at all in this case.
> Perhaps I don't understand what your idea. There are a number (two
that
> I know of, so probably more than that), of text<->midi converters
> available. They convert between a text-format description of the MIDI
> events, and the binary MIDI file format. One such converter is (if
> memory serves) included with the old MIDITOOLS package. 
> 
> Larry
> 
> --  Larry Troxler --  lt@westnet.com  --  Patterson, NY USA  --
> 
> 

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