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PianoDisc Question
By Wallace Venable

[ In 070306 MMDigest:

>> I am an electrical engineer and manufacture a MIDI converter for
>> older Yamaha organs; so I am familiar with MIDI encoding.

I'm only a mechanical engineer and have not been able to figure out
a way to directly read and/or edit MIDI files.

Marc Kaufman wrote:

> Well, you could always build a MIDI repeater that turns velocity=0
> into "note off" commands.

Are there any inexpensive programs that allow you to do bulk
replacement of MIDI messages in files, such as remove all references
to note number nn, or program changes?  Such a program could make it
easier to transform files for use in punching rolls for small organs.

Wallace Venable

 [ See Guenter Nagler's GNMIDI shareware at http://www.gnmidi.com/
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Thu 8 Mar 2007, 18:34:54 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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