Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution

[Giles Boardman]

Indeed, Martin. But I am more of a troubadour than a musician and more of a business analyst than a programmer, so I have cobbled together some "utilities" that help me make music from assorted midi files and long before I understood the role I might make LilyPond play I choose a midi resolution and it isn't 384. I believe ABC2MIDI also outputs at a fixed resolution, though I could be wrong. So, you're right, my "software" doesn't conform to the MIDI standard, but it doesn't really need to because it has a user group of one. Best Giles

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From: lilypond-user-bounces+giles.boardman=hotmail.co.uk@gnu.org <lilypond-user-bounces+giles.boardman=hotmail.co.uk@gnu.org> on behalf of Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarenskeen@kpnmail.nl>
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Subject: Re: MIDI format and MIDI resolution

 

Op donderdag 9 mei 2024 om 16:33:02 +00:00:00 schreef Giles Boardman
<giles.boardman@hotmail.co.uk>:
> Hello,
> Can anyone tell me if it is possible to generate Midi format 0 files
> and whether it is possible to control the resolution setting. I have
> been standardising resolution for midi files from different sources
> and the value I chose is not the one output by Lilypond.

What is the reason you want to standardise the resolution for your midi
files anyway?

If there is software that you use that requires a standardized midi
resolution, then this software was not designed conform the MIDI
standard. Any software that can load MIDI files should be able to read
any possible resolution from a MIDI file and calculate whatever it
needs for it's own native resolution from there.

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Martin