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Converting a MIDI file to text (csv, tab-delimited, etc.) and back again? - madscijr - 08-19-2022

I could see these being a couple useful routines, and I even had (have? somewhere?) a couple ancient DOS EXEs that do it, but no source code and they may not work under modern Windows. If anyone has done this in QuickBasic or VB or a non-OO language like C, and would share your code, or even any experience with this, I would be willing to give it the old college try! :-D

RE: Converting a MIDI file to text (csv, tab-delimited, etc.) and back again? - SMcNeill - 08-20-2022

You might want to check this out: https://github.com/a740g/QB64-MIDI-Player

RE: Converting a MIDI file to text (csv, tab-delimited, etc.) and back again? - madscijr - 08-20-2022

(08-20-2022, 12:04 AM)SMcNeill Wrote: You might want to check this out: https://github.com/a740g/QB64-MIDI-Player

This is a start - thanks!

UPDATE: I found a bunch of info, starting with this, will look at it when back at the computer:
https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/midicsv/#Download

RE: Converting a MIDI file to text (csv, tab-delimited, etc.) and back again? - madscijr - 08-22-2022

(08-20-2022, 12:04 AM)SMcNeill Wrote: You might want to check this out: https://github.com/a740g/QB64-MIDI-Player

Here are some pages I found on this topic... I will wade through these in the next few months, but figured I would post this for anyone interested. 

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RE: Converting a MIDI file to text (csv, tab-delimited, etc.) and back again? - madscijr - 08-23-2022

UPDATE: 

This looks like what I'm looking for, done in C:
The files are
Now comes the (not so) fun part of trying to make sense of this and translating it to QB64.
Hey, it can't hurt to ask for help!

Discussion around converting these to QB64 is continued Any C programmers wanna help convert code to convert between MIDI + CSV?]here: