From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Feb 8 9:39:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from dolphin.idleplay.net (ip68-11-107-40.no.no.cox.net [68.11.107.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575CE37B417 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 09:39:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by dolphin.idleplay.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g18Hd9s13787; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:39:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020208195041.A60024@welearn.com.au> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 11:39:09 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@cox.net Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-crazed Hippies From: Conrad Sabatier To: Sue Blake Subject: Re: can I do this with a midi program? Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 08-Feb-2002 Sue Blake wrote: > I have some tunes as midi files that I want to edit. I should start by saying that, unfortunately, MIDI editing software for Unix is by and large vastly inferior to anything existing on other platforms. Are you prepared to use the dreaded Windows? :-) > Each note has to have its length altered slightly, Adjusting lengths is fairly simple in MIDI (given a decent editor). > and some > notes need to start soft and get louder, others start loud and > get soft, or have a loudness bulge in the middle then fade off > to inaudible. Like a fancy singer might do. This is difficult, if not impossible, to attain in MIDI, due to the limitations of the MIDI format. It's possible to specify a velocity for a note (essentially "how hard to hit it"), but modifying the volume of a currently playing note is only possible if you adjust the volume of the entire MIDI device, meaning ALL voices are affected. I use Cakewalk for Windows, myself. A very nice and versatile program. A pared-down (but still quite functional) version called "Cakewalk Music Studio" is available at a reasonable price. The full-blown Cakewalk will run you several hundred dollars (!). There are other MIDI apps for Windows that are quite popular: Cubase comes to mind immediately. Again, you'll pay dearly for a full package. You could always try scouring the *.warez and alt.binaries.sounds.utilities newsgroups, I suppose. :-) Hope this helps somewhat. -- Conrad Sabatier Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message