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General => MusicBee Wishlist => Topic started by: Serpentine_Cougar on November 13, 2010, 05:06:07 PM

Title: MIDI playback
Post by: Serpentine_Cougar on November 13, 2010, 05:06:07 PM

I'd love to be able to listen to midi files in MusicBee.
Any chance that might get added sometime?
Thanks.

Title: Re: MIDI playback
Post by: DAST on June 04, 2011, 05:23:14 PM

*Push*

Yeah, it would be really nice, if MusicBee can play midi files.

Title: Re: MIDI playback
Post by: wkLeon on June 24, 2016, 10:51:46 PM

It's been six years since this was brought up. How difficult will it be for this to be implemented?

Title: Re: MIDI playback
Post by: phred on June 24, 2016, 11:30:25 PM

I don't speak for Steven, but there are many wishlist requests here that have lots of people adding their +1s. MusicBee is developed by one person in his spare time and I can't see Steven adding support for something that has had three requests in six years.  It has nothing to do with being easy or difficult to  implement, but rather where to devote his limited time.

Title: Re: MIDI playback
Post by: psychoadept on June 27, 2016, 05:33:23 AM

I'll +1 this. Trying to listen to midi files to learn choral parts...

Title: Re: MIDI playback
Post by: Steven on June 28, 2016, 08:06:44 PM

i had a look at this and it turns out to be quite straight-forward (at least for basic midi support) so its done for v3.1
because its straight-forward i will probably add it to v3.0.
The only thing that needs to be configured is that a sound font file is selected from the Player/ input plugin preferences

Title: Re: MIDI playback
Post by: Steven on June 28, 2016, 09:51:39 PM

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_0/MusicBee3_Patched.zip

for anyone who has edited the configuration.xml file, an updated version is now included

Title: Re: MIDI playback
Post by: psychoadept on June 29, 2016, 07:39:07 AM

Awesome!  I'll test this out shortly.

Title: Re: MIDI playback
Post by: psychoadept on July 13, 2016, 03:10:38 AM

Okay, took longer than I intended, but I have tested this and it's working.

If anyone needs a sound font file, I found one through this page: http://www.synthfont.com/links_to_soundfonts.html

Title: Re: MIDI playback
Post by: Cypher on July 18, 2016, 08:00:36 AM

I saw the bassmidi file in the latest patch, so i tried if it had finally MIDI support and it has! Converting MIDI to wave works fine too.