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Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by FluffySamoyed »

I used this software some time ago to edit a couple MIDI files with mouse and (computer) keyboard, mainly for altering melody tracks, fixing some wrong chords and adding drums. I found this tool pretty intuitive to use and liked it a lot.

I had previously tried Sekaiju and another tool whose name I forgot, but I felt like they were aimed at more experienced users and assumed a higher level of knowledge about MIDI terms and concepts (of which I know very little), so much of the interface went over my head. MIDI Editor was good enough for my simpler use case.

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by jacquesm »

Funny to see this here. I use it all the time, but it tends to crash too often so be sure to save your work frequently. It is very good when it does work though and I wished I could motivate the author to fix the bugs. I'd put the time in myself if I had a development environment set up for it.

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by jacquesm »

reactordev wrote: post #3

The software seems to be abandoned. There are dozens of issues and PR's open from several years back. Surely someone who was asking for donations would be attentive of the software of which those donations are based, no?

Hm... maybe I should make the owner an offer? I definitely think this software should be preserved.

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by adamrezich »

any other good general-purpose MIDI editors? my friends and I used Anvil Studio a lot back in the day despite it being kind of atrocious—always wondered if there was something better out there these days

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by shric »

mksybr wrote: post #10
vjvjvj wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

exactly. when you donate to an open source project you aren't supporting past development at all. you are instead entitled to getting whatever feature implemented you want.

If you donate to an open source project you are entitled to getting whatever feature implemented? /s?

> /s?

I thought the GP was so obviously sarcasm that it didn't need an explicit tag

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by somat »

adamrezich wrote: post #14

any other good general-purpose MIDI editors? my friends and I used Anvil Studio a lot back in the day despite it being kind of atrocious—always wondered if there was something better out there these days

LMMS appears to work as such. I have to admit I am not a musician and my only use of it was to test some midi control input from a midi dials and buttons box I was playing with. So it may be terrible for actual music creation for all I know.

https://lmms.io/

Update: so I looked at it a bit, still not a musician but it looks like lmms can only export single midi tracks at a time. So probably useless for actually creating a midi song. If you really wanted to beat your self up you could set up each track as a midi output channel, then play the song while recording the midi stream. But that does not sound like much fun to me.

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by livrem »

adamrezich wrote: post #14

any other good general-purpose MIDI editors? my friends and I used Anvil Studio a lot back in the day despite it being kind of atrocious—always wondered if there was something better out there these days

Back in the day there was a very nice and simple little MIDI sequencer for X-Windows called Seq24 that I used every now and then. Of course there are much more complex music software that also happens to have MIDI-support (LMMS, Renoise, ...) but I liked Seq24 because it only did short MIDI patterns and had quite good GUI (holding down various modifiers and using the different mouse-buttons to do most edits).

Searching I get a link to a URL that looks like it could have been the Seq24 home page, but Firefox throws up a security warning for that domain. There is also a hit for this project that claims to be based on Seq24 and that has commits as recently as a few days ago, so maybe this is worth looking at:

https://github.com/ahlstromcj/seq66

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by unleaded »

somat wrote: post #16
adamrezich wrote: post #14

any other good general-purpose MIDI editors? my friends and I used Anvil Studio a lot back in the day despite it being kind of atrocious—always wondered if there was something better out there these days

LMMS appears to work as such. I have to admit I am not a musician and my only use of it was to test some midi control input from a midi dials and buttons box I was playing with. So it may be terrible for actual music creation for all I know. https://lmms.io/ Update: so I looked at it a bit, still not a musician but it looks like lmms can only export single midi tracks at a time. So probably useless for actually creat…

Until/unless it gets fixed LMMS is awful for working with MIDI files, it puts all the events on one channel and there's no way around it other than maybe saving each track as a separate file and combining them with something else..

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by ale42 »

unleaded wrote: post #5

sorry to add to the somewhat negative comments but I used to use this for editing MIDIs and I eventually moved to Sekaiju http://openmidiproject.opal.ne.jp/Sekaiju_en.html , it's a lot nicer for doing more complex/low-level MIDI work although the UI is a bit painful and it's kind of slow but that might just be my old computer and/or Wine. it's also free and open source (or as FOSS as a win32 application can be if tha…

Sekaiju looks good, thanks for mentioning it!

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by TheActualWalko »

If you're looking for a free app to edit MIDI, check out wavtool.com!

We're not open source, but our free product has pretty good MIDI editing for conventional use cases. There's also an interactive MIDI composition AI model.

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