Midi in Blitzmax?

[Yellownakji]

Searched everywhere; Only lead was vertex.mod's midi.mod which has piss poor documentation.  I had to go through wayback machine to retrieve a download; rather annoying.

Is there a concrete way to play midi?

[Henri]

Hi,

there is the rtMidi.mod in https://github.com/maxmods/bah.mod . Haven't used it, but I assume it works since the last update was 7 months ago.

-Henri

[Derron]

When in search for blitzmax stuff, first stop by at Brucey's mom-and-pop-shop located at
https://github.com/maxmods/bah.mod
or
https://blitzmax.org/docs/en/community/resources/
in general.


bye
Ron

[GW]

You haven't said what do you want to do with midi?

[Yellownakji]

Hi,

there is the rtMidi.mod in https://github.com/maxmods/bah.mod . Haven't used it, but I assume it works since the last update was 7 months ago.

-Henri

RTMidi seems to only be for MIDI device connectivity.  I want to play MIDI binaries (.MIDs).  Sigh.

[Henri]

My mistake there then. You could try FMod as it can play midi-files (found in same place). I haven't had any need for audio, as I do corporate applications mostly, hence I'm not that familiar with this area. I did manage to play a file so you should be too :-).

-Henri

[Derron]

Windows-only:
http://mojolabs.nz/posts.php?topic=41983

bye
Ron

[GW]

I want to play MIDI binaries (.MIDs).

You need to use either the windows MCI or you'll need to decode the midi file format yourself. 
Here are some links to the format.
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ich/classes/mumt306/StandardMIDIfileformat.html
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ich/classes/mumt306/SMFformat.html
http://valentin.dasdeck.com/midi/midifile.htm

Here is an example of using MCI
http://www.mojolabs.nz/posts.php?topic=45546

[markcwm]

What Derron posted should play Midi files, but sadly only for Windows.

What you could do is record the midi files with Soundwave/etc then convert to mp3/etc and play that?

[Yellownakji]

What Derron posted should play Midi files, but sadly only for Windows.

What you could do is record the midi files with Soundwave/etc then convert to mp3/etc and play that?

No, i won't convert.  I want to use the source material for a specific reason.  -  either way, this is a mini side project and i've abandoned blitzmax for it.  I've decided to write it in pascal; The game is better suited for DOS anyways.

Anyways, it was a mini project so it's whatever, i suppose.  Midi is annoying to work with, so trust me, i wish i could convert.