On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:58:14 +0100, Ian McCall wrote:
>
> On 2017-08-08 20:26:06 +0000, Andreas Kohlbach  said:
>
>> I always like coding for vintage pleasure. But for MIDI... This is
>> probably mainly for folks who want to play SID files on their MIDI
>> capable keyboard synthesizers.
>>
>> I myself was collecting MIDI files but that stopped in the end of the 90s
>> already. Suppose it's kind of not used much anymore unless you are
>> professional musician.
>
> It is -massively- used.

I didn't doubt that. It's just the casual PC user does not. You need to
be interested in connecting instruments.

> What you're describing is playing via the cheap sound card General
> MIDI patch-compatible sound cards, like the Waveblaster (Sounblaster
> with a wavetable synth built in) or similar. But MIDI is
> sound-independent: it's the score, the receipt, not the sound itself.

No, I just mentioned that also casual users - like me - used MIDI back in
the 90s, before MP3 and higher bandwidth (and Napster ;-) kicked in. I
say MIDI used by the casual user was quickly abandoned in the very late 90s.

> I would -love- to have a modern, up to date SID2MIDI. I work in Logic
> on the Mac, run various SID emulation instruments like QuadraSID (now
> discontinued sadly). If you're starting a remix, you can do a lot
> worse than start from the original MIDI. Feed the original MIDI into a
> modern emulation and start playing with the sounds - excellent.

What about MIDI to SID? Should be even easier. You might have like 128
midi instruments defined in GM and could try to create sounds similar to
that with the SID. You could put the parameters for these sounds in a table
with other characteristics, like attack/decay/sustain/release. Then if
say instrument #1 (piano IIRC) is played in a MIDI look up the piano
sound for the SID from that table.
--
Andreas
You know you are a redneck if
you come back from the dump with more than you took.

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