Combining midi files

[Basil]

I would like to create a single midi file by combining two or more
smaller midi files to play consecutively as if it were one file. Any
advise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[JB Seattle]

Copy, paste--it's that simple with Cakewalk.
JB
"Basil" <bpessin@renc.igs.net> wrote in message
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> I would like to create a single midi file by combining two or more
> smaller midi files to play consecutively as if it were one file. Any
> advise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[zentara]

On 1 May 2003 16:06:56 -0700, bpessin@renc.igs.net (Basil) wrote:

>I would like to create a single midi file by combining two or more
>smaller midi files to play consecutively as if it were one file. Any
>advise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

The gnmidi suite of utilities has "midicat.exe" which runs under
wine if you are on linux.
wine midicat.exe 1.mid 2.mid output.mid

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You can also use Perl, figuring out how to concat them is left to you.
This will dump a midi. (If I figure it out, I will post it later :-)).

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use MIDI;
for my $midi (@ARGV) {
my $opus = MIDI::Opus->new({ 'from_file' => $midi, 'no_parse' => 1 });
open(*STDOUT, ">", "$midi.txt");
$opus->dump( { dump_tracks => 1 } );
}

#to reconstruct a midi you need to prepend
# use MIDI;
# $opus=
# .....
# ....
#and append at the end
# $opus->write_to_file('myout.mid');

[Michael R. Kesti]

JB Seattle wrote:

>Copy, paste--it's that simple with Cakewalk.
>JB
>"Basil" <bpessin@renc.igs.net> wrote in message
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>> I would like to create a single midi file by combining two or more
>> smaller midi files to play consecutively as if it were one file. Any
>> advise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Indeed. I like to say that sequencers, such as Cakewalk, are to MIDI
data as word processors are to textual data.

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================================================== ======================
Michael Kesti | "And like, one and one don't make
| two, one and one make one."
mkesti@gv.net | - The Who, Bargain

[JB Seattle]

Then I guess you really haven't tried cutting and pasting much, as long as
the setup measure is there, what's the problem?
Jn
"Michael R. Kesti" <mkesti@gv.net> wrote in message
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> JB Seattle wrote:
>
> >Copy, paste--it's that simple with Cakewalk.
> >JB
> >"Basil" <bpessin@renc.igs.net> wrote in message
> >news:da5da262.0305011506.555fc2aa@posting.google.c om...
> >> I would like to create a single midi file by combining two or more
> >> smaller midi files to play consecutively as if it were one file. Any
> >> advise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Indeed. I like to say that sequencers, such as Cakewalk, are to MIDI
> data as word processors are to textual data.
>
> --
> ================================================== ======================
> Michael Kesti | "And like, one and one don't make
> | two, one and one make one."
> mkesti@gv.net | - The Who, Bargain
>

[Günter Nagler]

http://www.gnmidi.com (f. Windows) has make medley operation.

Basil wrote:
>
> I would like to create a single midi file by combining two or more
> smaller midi files to play consecutively as if it were one file. Any
> advise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[JB Seattle]

I forgot about that one, Dr. it does work very well. Every midi studio
should have your toolkit.
JB
"Günter Nagler" <gnagler@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at> wrote in message
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> http://www.gnmidi.com (f. Windows) has make medley operation.
>
> Basil wrote:
> >
> > I would like to create a single midi file by combining two or more
> > smaller midi files to play consecutively as if it were one file. Any
> > advise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Terry Donovan]

the problem with cut and paste is that the instruments in the pasted midi
file might change to the instruments in first midi file...but thats easy
enough to change
"Basil" <bpessin@renc.igs.net> wrote in message
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> I would like to create a single midi file by combining two or more
> smaller midi files to play consecutively as if it were one file. Any
> advise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.