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Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by unleaded »

unleaded wrote: post #18
somat wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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..

https://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33561#p78706

"Not many devs have the requisite knowledge of MIDI" ..in a DAW?

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by lagniappe »

shric wrote: post #15
mksybr wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I hate those stupid tags anyway. If it needs an /s it can be articulated better another way.

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by kazinator »

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…

I was interested in Sekaiju a decade ago and I cloned a repository of it to do some patching.

I converted all the JIS source code to UTF-8. (If you're gonna be 世界中 (sekaijuu -- world-wide, world-over) then use Unicode, man).

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/sekaiju

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by jacquesm »

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…

What I love about midieditor is that it is FOSS and works natively on Linux.

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by jacquesm »

dkga wrote: post #23

Rust port in 3, 2, … :)

If only. I see a ton of 'rust port of 'x'' announcements when they start but I have a hard time recalling one that is finished and then maintained for at least a couple of years.

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by jacquesm »

FluffySamoyed wrote: post #11

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 ter…

I compare it to Paintshop Pro: it may not be Photoshop, but that's an advantage if you don't actually need Photoshop.

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by jacquesm »

TheActualWalko wrote: post #20

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.

It just had to be 'SaaS'. Sorry, but now, not paying you a monthly fee.

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by jacquesm »

Rochus wrote: post #2

Nice, but there are already a lot of such tools. What is the core benefit of this one specifically compared to the others?

Simplicity, very quick to for certain use cases. I use it all the time to time-align MIDI tracks to use them with pianojacq.com so that the scores look good and are beat perfect.

Re: MIDI Editor

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Post by jacquesm »

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…

LMMS is very limited. You also can't open existing midi files in it and then edit them and save them again.
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