Reading MIDI data

[Jeff-20]

Can anyone recommend a way to read MIDI data (note pitch and duration)? I would like to see actual numbers and not visual interpretations. For example, a MIDI event list. "A3 on, B4 off, etc." with time indicators.

I have many programs, FL studio, etc. But none seem to allow the user to look at actual data.

These days, is there anyway to get to anything at all without a GUI???

[a1bert]

Can anyone recommend a way to read MIDI data (note pitch and duration)?

Get midicvt from http://www.vlsi.fi/en/support/software/vs10xxtools.html . The code is designed to perform midi format 1 to format 0 conversion, but you can insert your own code to show the note on and note off events. (Note that note on with velocity 0 means note off as well.)

[ral-clan]

Try MIDI-OX here:

http://www.midiox.com/

And on the same page there is a ASCII-to-MIDI converter as well. I assume this will take a saved MIDI file and convert it to ASCII (and vice versa).

[Jeff-20]

Thanks! I'm going to test these out this weekend.

[Schema]

Also MIDI Medic:

http://www.organworks.com/Web/products/ ... y=Software

[Jeff-20]

I don't want to read the data IN and OUT. I would like to "deconstruct" a midi file to see it's numeric values. And perhaps, separate the command types so I could just see the NOTE ONs in a specific MIDI and exclude controller changes.

[davidv_]

For typical MIDI file byte mangling I just do that with my own code, but i have to admit a bare excel-like MIDI file editor would serve some purposes. What I use typically to is the event list in Cakewalk Sonar.

If MIDI files were not soo old school, maybe it would make sense for plogue (my company) to do such a MIDI editor.