Questions tagged [midi]
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a specification that enables a wide variety of digital musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another.
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Does a USB hub affect performance?
I have two devices I want maximum throughput and latency with (MIDI drums and MIDI keyboard for example.)
Would connecting both to the same USB port via a hub effectively limit the maximum data ...
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How does one playback MIDI files on Mac OS X?
I’m on Mac OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite and in the past, I used VLC Media Player in combination with FluidSynth to play back MIDI sound files, but according to the answer to this question, this option is no ...
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How to play MIDI files directly in chrome?
Is there a way to make Chrome able to play .mid files directly in the browser? For example, on a Wikipedia page with MIDI files there are many audio files in the right that are downloaded when ...
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Translating MIDI input into computer keystrokes on Linux?
I have a MIDI controller (Launchkey Mini) that I don't really use for music production anymore, but I would like to use the drum pad buttons or piano keys on it to perform computer keyboard ...
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Where's Windows XP standard MIDI SoundFont?
I'm trying to find the standard SoundFont used in WindowsXP's MIDI Wavetable Synthesizer.
I don't know if I get this right, but there seems to be a set of Roland Sound Canvas samples used in XP's ...
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How to disable MS GS WAVETABLE synth? or what is occuping it?
I have a small(?) issue program. A friend of mine has a computer with the following specs:
Creative XtremeMusic soundcard (latest x-fi drivers, the complete package)
USB Midimate 2 (usb midi ...
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How do I view a midi device stream
I have a midi controller, and it creates two files on my ubuntu system /dev/dmmidi and /dev/midi1. I want to see the raw output of my midi device when I push buttons and move sliders. I've tried ...
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Virtual MIDI keyboard for Mac OS X?
Is there a virtual MIDI keyboard or any other program that can generate MIDI events like if it were a MIDI instrument for or in Mac OS X?
I've found some but they are extremely old and for PPC. I'd ...
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Convert Amiga Oktalyzer format to MIDI
I have some very old audio files from an old DOS game, which are in oktalyzer (.okt) format. I don't know much about the octalyzer format so I'm not sure what these are based on, though, when played ...
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How to use a MIDI keyboard to save wav audio with Cubase?
I have the following setup: a Yamaha DGX-505, a Windows 10 PC, the Yamaha MIDI USB driver, Yamaha Studio Manager and Cubase LE AI Elements 8. I have reached a point where I can add a MIDI track in ...
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tiMidity: extract tracks preserving initial silence
tiMidity can extract individual tracks from a standard MIDI file to audio files, using its option -o out.wav, and its option -Q 0,-n to quieten all tracks but the n'th.
However, re-mixing the ...
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How to re enable the default MIDI synth in Windows 10?
I installed some time ago VirtualMIDISynth to have soundfont-able MIDI reproducing in my machine. But soon I began to realize how incompatible with players and MIDI editors this jury-rig-type of ...
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Playing MIDI files under Ubuntu
UPDATE: Found a more detailed and comprehensive explanation here.
Original Question:
I'm trying to play MIDI files under Linux. This is what I found so far:
sudo apt-get install fluid-soundfont-gm ...
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How to play midi music in VirtualBox Windows 98?
I'd build a Windows 98 VM in my Mac with VirtualBox to run some old games, like "Z". It is running, but without the great soundtrack. When testing, I realize that the soundtrack is in midi files, and ...
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Is it possible to rename a MIDI port in Windows 10
Is there any way to rename a MIDI port / device in Windows 10?
When you connect a USB MIDI device to a PC running Windows 10 it gets a name. If you then connect the same device to a different USB ...
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How to tell if pitch bend is supported
Win7-64:
This is my only midi device:
Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, deviceid = 0.
Is there any way to tell if midi pitch bend is supported on this device?
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How do I get FluidSynth support in VLC on Mac OS X?
I'm trying to play a MIDI file on OS X 10.10 Yosemite. I just downloaded the latest version of VLC from the VideoLAN website, and followed these MIDI instructions to look at audio codecs, but ...
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Program to play piano on MIDI keyboard
audio MIDI keyboard.
The software it comes with is overcomplicated for me, so I use GarageBand on Mac.
Is there a simple free program for Windows - just to play realistic piano sound and that's it?
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How to split MIDI file on Linux in command line?
Expecting something like
split_midi input.mid --from 1:00 --to 2:45 -o output.mid
It whould be good if the tool also allow joining, changing volume, filtering tracks and transposing the MIDI.
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MIDI - Continous control of pitch outside the standard pitch bend range? [closed]
After I send a note on message I can control the pitch of a note within a ±2 semitone range using the pitch bend channel command.
How can I continuously update a pitch of a note outside of the normal ...
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Ubuntu linux - new "MIDI" device diagnostic software?
I'm looking for software that will tell me if a particular USB device meets the MIDI standard.
I have a new Madcatz wireless USB controller, that I suspect will need a special driver before it's ...
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Windows Simple MIDI Synthesizer? [closed]
I am looking for a small MIDI synthesizer for Windows. It must accept MIDI notes from MIDI ports. On Mac I've found this
http://notahat.com/simplesynth/
which works nicely. Anything for Windows?
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Decoding MIDI data from audio dump
Warning: This is not a generic "how do I make a .midi from a .wav"? question.
While browsing my filesystem, I uncovered an old Alesis HR-16 drum machine's dump in WAV format. The device has a ...
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How is media player playing midi .mid files?
Win7-64: I have to do a midi project, and I just realized my asus p5k motherboard has no midi device, just the ad1988b high def audio chip. There is no midi device listed in device manager. How then ...
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Piano keyboard connects to Qsynth but no sound Linux
I'm running Mint 18.3 Mate on an Intel i5-8600K desktop. I do not have a sound card or speakers. I have a Sennheiser headset that works fine when I listen to something off the web like youtube.
I ...
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How to bind USB control knobs to adjust the volume on specific applications?
I want to control the volume level of 2 specific Windows Applications using my USB piano's control knobs (Spotify Premium & discord).
FIRST TRY - AutoHotkey. The KeyHistory does not detect any ...
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FluidSynth as Windows default MIDI device
Is it possible to setup FluidSynth as the Windows default MIDI device?
I know is possible to do this with Timidity, but i'd like to try with FluidSynth as well..
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How to get Virtual PC to recognize MIDI devices?
Hey all. I have an XP Pro virtual machine running inside Virtual PC 2007. My host machine is x64 Windows 7. I have a MIDI keyboard hooked up to my machine via a Turtle Beach USB to MIDI 1x1 cable. I ...
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Use DOSBox's SB16 Emulation in real DOS?
So I've been thinking, is it potentially possible to use DOSBox's sound emulation software in real DOS on machines with AC97/IHDA chips so that you can use audio properly? I've been using the PC ...
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Is it possible to trigger a script when a .wav audio file is played?
At work we have this software that monitors our door system, we want to run a script each time someone enters the office.
One thing it can do is play .wav files.
We would want to run a different ...
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How do I increase the number of MIDI through ports in ALSA?
ALSA always creates 1 MIDI through port. Since I work with Windows music applications via Wine, and because MIDI through ports are everything-proof, how can I increase the amount of MIDI through ports ...
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Can the serial-u16550 module be used with USB serial converter for MIDI?
Trying to use a Yamaha to-host cable to connect my 12 year old musical keyboard (Yamaha PSR550) to my current generation desktop PC running Ubuntu Linux (18.04.1), to exchange MIDI data.
The Yamaha ...
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Re-route Midi from one program to another
I have a (closed-source) program on Windows which is able to output music as Midi.
I want to write software, to be run on the same PC, which uses this Midi data as input.
I figured I could do this ...
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Can I use an UART (serial port) as a MIDI device in Linux?
Can I convince Linux (kernel/ALSA/Jack) to use an arbitrary UART or serial port (usually /dev/ttyS* or /dev/ttyUSB* or /dev/ttyACM*) to output the MIDI messages?
This is the way MIDI was done on the ...
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Is there a way to make Vista recognize MIDI files?
I recently spent a couple of weekends trying to get a Vista machine to recognize MIDI files. I spent time looking for workarounds or third-party programs to resolve this, but nothing I tried worked. ...
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Enabling MIDI editors to play MIDI files on Linux (without an external musical device)
I cannot enable MIDI files to be played on Linux in editors such as Qtractor or MidiEditor. Why is it not working when VLC can play these MIDI files?
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I was able to make VLC play .mid files on ...
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How to Force Refresh of MacOS USB MIDI Device Name Cache
I'm developing a USB MIDI device using a PIC32 and I need to change the USB name of the device without changing the Vendor ID (VID) or Product ID (PID) in the "USB Device Descriptor".
I'm using a ...
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How can I use old MIDI devices with modern PCs?
I have a Yamaha PSR-550 keyboard. It was released in 2001 (it's as old as me!), and is equipped with MIDI ports:
How can I use the serial MIDI port (marked to host) with my modern PCs? (They don't ...
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How can I use a single MIDI controller in multiple applications on Windows 7?
I have a Korg nanoKONTROL2 (in case it makes a difference) and I'd like to use it in multiple applications at once - say, left 4 faders in one, right 4 faders in another one.
It's not a problem to ...
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Viena SoundFont Editor does not load large wave-Files
I am playing around with the Viena SoundFont Editor (Versions 0.935 and 0.940) and I was able to add smaller audio samples to a newly created soundbank. When I am trying to load a large sample > 400kB ...
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How to setup a Linux laptop as a MIDI device?
Which external MIDI interface will work on Linux to use a software sequencer with an external expander?
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Timidity output changes when using -Ox options to output to file
I'm using timidity to convert MIDI files to ogg vorbis files. However, the output is musically different.
By musically different, I mean they are in the different key. They are also played in ...
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Windows 8.1 PC no longer playing MIDI files
On this Windows 8.1 PC, double-clicking the File Explorer entry for a MIDI (.mid) file creates a Windows Media Player process, but that process creates an error box saying "Windows Media Player cannot ...
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How to bind key on midi keyboard to send enter input?
I have a midi keyboard connected to my Windows 8.1 x64 PC and I want to setup one of it's key to send enter input, I want one of it's keys to behave like enter. Is it possible to do and if so - how?
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Using avconv to convert an animated gif to mp4 with sound
I want to convert an animated gif and a midi (music) file into a mp4 video. Is it possible?
I saw a lot of topics on documentation, foruns and stackexchange sites, but I didn't find.
It works with 1 ...
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Tiny MIDI sequencer for Windows [closed]
Looking for MIDI software, which I can use to play music using my USB MIDI keyboard. The problem is that I have Asus EEEPC and it's not that powerful, so the software need to be as tiny as possible.
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How to identify the optimal SoundFont for a MIDI file?
When I come across a .mid file without any additional details, is there any way to determine which SoundFont it was created with/intended to be heard with, or is it just trial and error?
For example ...
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Play MIDI via virtual device?
I have a program that plays MIDI files and allows me to select from installed MIDI devices on machine.
Right now I only have the standard MIDI that comes with windows.
My question is if it's possible ...
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Windows XP - why is my usbaudio.sys in capitals?
I'm trying to diagnose a problem with a USB MIDI input device not working on WindowsXP.
I've noticed that my usbaudio.sys In /Windows/System32/Drivers/ is actually named USBAUDIO.sys. My question is ...
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