Re: MIDI files on IIgs?

[jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Joseph Turner)]

Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:
: 
: 
: Something tells me that this should be fairly straightforward, and has
: probably already been done...but I don't know where to look.
: 
: I've noticed that many World Wide Web pages now have soundtracks provided
: by MIDI music files...tiny little files with whole multi-voice songs in
: them.  Of course, listening to them through a SoundBlaster 16 is a little
: unfulfilling when I know my IIgs can do better.
: 
: So...Does there exist a program to either play these files directly, or to
: translate them from whatever that .MID format is into something that can
: be played by, say, NoiseTracker or SynthLab, or something like that?
: 
: Just wondering...
: 
: --Dave Althoff, ][.
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There is somewhere on Ground a file called midiconv or something like
that. It can be used to convert midi files to files that midi synth can
play. I did this to a few midi's such as Wannabee (Spice Girls), and got
it to work. Unfortunately I have't got any decent instruments, so it
sounds pretty bad. If you want the place where I got the midi's email me
and I can follow up the place. I haven't got the www on me now cause it is
at home on my IIgs <grin>.

Cheers

Joe