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Date1997-08-28 15:53
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SubjectBOUNCE Csound: Non-member submission from [anechoic@sirius.com] (fwd)
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To: Reid Sweatman ,
        "'Kim Cascone'" 
Subject: RE: MIDI Files in BIN Format
Cc: "'csound@noether.ex.ac.uk'" 

At 04:37 AM 8/27/97 -0700, Reid Sweatman wrote:


>We seem to be consistently butting heads over semantic difficulties . 
> Obviously, you have to get the files from one machine to another.  Apple 
>File Exchange does a right nifty job of converting between Mac and PC file 
>types.  Just save the MIDI file to disk using AFE and plug the disk into 
>the PC and read it.  Should be no problem with raw MIDI files this way. 
> Done it myself a couple of times.  In a standard MIDI file on the Mac I 
>don't believe anything is done with the resource fork; it's a placeholder, 
>and simply goes away when the file is transferred via AFE.  If you had the 
>machines side by side you could also just *play* the MIDI from one machine 
>to another, capturing and saving it on the PC end.  My point was, there 
>*is* a standard data format for MIDI files, no matter how a particular 
>machine likes to lay them down on disk.

for some reason I always used this little app someone at Headspace wrote
that basically took a PC MIDI file and put in some MIDI resource fork info
for the Mac (it could be set up to batch files)...thanks for all the info...
peaceOut()
KIM
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