Heyas!

This is a copy of my post from the http://www.remix64.com forum.

I thought I'd let you all know that I'm working on a tool to allow you to
convert and play MIDI files on a virtual (emulated) SID on your PC. 

I have created an XSID format and a suite of tools that allow you to play tunes
without the CPU, CIA and VIC emulation. These tools are already on GitHub at
https://github.com/M3wP/XSID. Unfortunately, they are currently only for
Windows because I don't 
know how to make a wrapper for ReSID on Linux/Android/MacOSX/iOS. It would be
an incredibly simple to task to make your own player for the format, though.
Help in this area would be really appreciated.

Back to the point, I am working on a tool to convert MIDI files to this XSID
format. So far, it is quite limited (only Format 0 MIDI files for example) but
I must say that it does seem to already do a better job than the SIDWizard
tool. I'm making it so 
that I can incorporate SID sounds into my music without buying VSTs etc and as
a proof of concept.

I will release it soon on GitHub, once I have a few nice-ities implemented.
I'll let you all know when that happens.

If there is enough interest, I don't see why it couldn't be expanded upon to
convert to the SIDWizard format or some-such for play-back on a real SID. The
program has been built to be extensible. Contact me if you want to participate.
I'm writing the 
tools in Object Pascal with Delphi and Free Pascal since I love them. 

Just also to mention, I'll probably eventually create a tool to do the opposite
since I'm finding SID2MIDI quite limited but it is a much more difficult task,
I believe.


Daniel.

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