[Coco] 83,797 MIDI Files..........

[Allen Huffman]

> On Nov 9, 2017, at 3:02 PM, Glen Hewlett <glen.hewlett at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> I’m currently working on a MIDI converter that will take both MIDI format 0 and a format 1 and convert them to music data that can be played back on the CoCo using either of these methods:

I *LOVE* this idea, and here’s why ...

While, as Bill pointed out, it’s not useful for playing a modern big MIDI file, it is a GREAT way to create music for CoCo projects. I can create music in GarageBand on my Mac, using a few tracks, and export that to a MIDI file that could then be data for the CoCo. Excellent.

(The stuff I am working with John Strong on is also using MIDI as the format for music to feed the sound chip.)

My first MIDI synthesizer, a Casio CZ-101, could only play 4 notes at a time (8 at lesser quality). There were a ton of MIDI files that targeted it back in the day, so there’s likely still a ton of things out there for the early years of much-more-limited MIDI devices, too.

		— A