[jmsl] writing work to a midi file

[jmsl at music.columbia.edu]

Hello J

Have look at jmsltestsuite.MidiLoggerNonRealTimeTest which plays 
MusicShapes at hyperspeed and writes them to a MIDI file. This will 
probably do what you need.  All scheduling will be preserved because the 
MusicShapes are really playing, although they are doing so silently and 
as fast possible. But their timestamps are updating properly and this is 
what is being written to the MIDIFile for timing.

If you want to use MIDI instruments and record in real time then of 
course you can just use Midi logging.

Thanks
Nick


jmsl at music.columbia.edu wrote:
> I'm going to be asking some pretty general questions for a bit, while 
> I work on the basic design of my app.
>
> This time I'm curious about midi file IO. I don't see any methods 
> which allow MusicShapes to be entered directly into midi files, so I'm 
> assuming we'd do something like this:
>
> 1) iterate over elements in a given MusicShape
> 2) get midi-compatible dimensions and create new MIDIFileEvents or 
> MIDIFileMetaEvents for them
> 3) add the MIDI events created in 2) to a new MIDIFileTrack
> 4) add the track from 3) to a MIDIFileImage
> 5) write the image from 4) to a midi file
>
> Sound about right? The only thing I'm not sure about is figuring out 
> the proper time for the events when creating midi tracks, since the 
> MusicShape holds events in seconds, while the midi tracks will hold 
> them in ticks...
>
> J.
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