[Coco] Bug in Umuse3-9.111 maybe earlier

[gene heskett]

Greetings all;

Maybe some of you Umuse users out there will find this helpful.

Playing around with the newest Umuse3 stuffs, and looking to see if I could 
maybe use rosegarden to edit the instruments, making some of my ancient 
.ume files into something resembling General Midi stuff, I found that when 
I had UMusE3 output, from its .ume file input, a .mid output, shipped it up 
to this box & play was at about 1% of normal speed when played in 
rosegarden, but sent straight to the synth input of my Audigy2 card, it 
sounded normal speed.

Asking around on the linux-audio-user mailing list, it was suggested that 
perhaps a program called midicomp might be useful.  It can translate a .mid 
file into human readable form, or it can translate that text input back 
into .mid files.

The UMusE3 .mid files contain several thousand lines of the format of
seqnum Arb f8  that are not in any of the other, non-umuse3 generated .mid 
files I have collected.  So I built a filter using

 midicomp filename.mid|grep -v Arb|filename.asc

then

 midicomp -c filename.asc >Filename.mid

Note that on linux filename.mid and Filename.mid are 2 separate files so 
there is no name clash.

And rosegarden is happy, so all I need to do now is figure out the new GM 
instruments to use.
 
To get midicomp, use git clone as shown at
<https://github.com/markc/midicomp>

Searching google for midicomp will get you an older version 0.4, this is 
0.6 that I used, it has been moved to a 'git' repository.

Have fun with your old ume files. :)

Cheers, Gene
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