Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 16:30:03 +0200 From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MIDI timing Message-ID: <399c9c55-d751-3689-b590-e9a1dd81a226@ladisch.de> In-Reply-To: <20190518124424.aiw4r72zgsedc5sq@hal9000.home.meka.rs>
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Goran Mekić wrote: > I have a simple MIDI file: > https://github.com/mekanix/libmaolan/blob/feature/midi-example/data/example.mid > > Acording to http://www.ccarh.org/courses/253/handout/smf/ The official SMF specification can be downloaded from www.midi.org. > there is the info of divisions per beat. For the example.mid I get that > divisions are 19200 00000000: 4d 54 68 64 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 01 4b 00 4d 54 MThd........K.MT Correct. > so I assume if I have 100BPM song This file does not contain any tempo events, so you have to assume 120 BPM. > this would translate to 192000 divisions per second. 19200 * 100 = 1920000 "Division" is the name of the field in the header, but not of the unit of time specified by it. This field specified _ticks_ per beat. With 120 BPM, you actually have 2304000 ticks per second. (And the tempo event would not specify BPM, but microseconds per beat.) Regards, Clemenshome | help
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