[Coco] Bug in Umuse3-9.111 maybe earlier

[Aaron Wolfe]

The F8's are timing ticks, manually advancing the MIDI clock.  They
are not normally used.
-Aaron


On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:09 AM, gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 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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