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

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