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Creating MIDI files using the classic basic 

PLAY command and MML
 by angros47 » Jun 02, 2018 19:55

This program is a variant of the PLAY routine that, instead of playing the
angros47
notes, creates a MIDI file with the sequence. It works like the normal QBASIC
PLAY command, but it supports more than one track (using the same syntax
Posts: 2329 of GWBasic and MSX Basic, PLAY string1, string2, String3....). Notes can be
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19:04
put between {} to play chords. The routine creates single or multitrack midi
files.
CODE: SELECT ALL
Track=_fbplay_internal (15,playstr15)
if len(Track)>0 then
Midi=Midi +"MTrk"+WriteFourBytes(len(Track)+4)+T
Tracks+=1
end if

open "output.mid" for output as #2

?#2,"MThd"+chr(0)+chr(0)+chr(0)+chr(6)+chr(0)+chr(iif(T
close
end sub

PLAY " i48 t200l4mneel2el4eel2el4egl3cl8dl1el4ffl3fl8fl4fel2el8

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Re: Creating MIDI files using the classic 

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 by dodicat » Jun 03, 2018 10:33

I tested with various downloaded play strings (qb64 and others).

dodicat
It works really well.(Windows media player, Win 10)
For such short code and many options this is a real gem.
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 by Roland Chastain » Jun 08, 2018 21:45

Great.
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 by oyster » Jan 08, 2019 8:38

so， is there a gui?

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Re: Creating MIDI files using the classic 

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 by Roland Chastain » Sep 20, 2020 12:04

Hello! Here is a humble contribution to this thread.

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CODE: SELECT ALL
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'==============================================================
' Johann Sebastian Bach
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Location: France ' Sarabande from C Minor Cello Suite (BWV 1011)
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dim as const string A = "O4 L8MLGE-<BMN>CL4<A- L8ML>>C<A-EMNFL4

dim as const string B = "O4 L8MLCE-A-MNGML>D-MNC ML<DFB-MNA-ML>
dim as const string C = "O4 L8MLB-GDMNE-L4<D- L8ML>B-GEMNFL4<G
dim as const string D = "O3 L8MLE->CFMNE-MLB-MNA ML<D>DGMNFML>CM
dim as const string E = "O5 MLE-C<F+MNGML<AMN>>E- MLL64DE-L16D.

Play("T48" & A & B & A & B & C & D & E & C & D & E & "P2 ")
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 by Roland Chastain » May 08, 2021 12:33

Hello! I have just discovered a repository with several beautiful Bach

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transcriptions :
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@angros47
Contact:  Thanks again for your program. I love it! I even converted it to Pascal. :)
Regards.
Roland 

Re: Creating MIDI files using the classic 

basic PLAY command and MML
 by angros47 » May 08, 2021 15:23

You are welcome!

angros47
In case you are interested in a newer version, I included the code of this
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Re: Creating MIDI files using the classic 

basic PLAY command and MML
 by Roland Chastain » May 08, 2021 17:31

 angros47 wrote:
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In case you are interested in a newer version, I included the code of this
Posts: 1008 program in SFX library:
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Location: France I already have the SFX library in my FB directory, but hadn't noticed until now
Contact:  that it includes a new version of playtomidi. (When I downloaded it, I had
something else in mind.)
I will take a look to the new version.
By the way, what do you think about the abc format? 

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 by angros47 » May 08, 2021 17:48

The SFX library (likely the one you have already downloaded) allows you to
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use the PLAY command both to play midi notes directly (like in QBasic and
QB64), or to create a midi file.
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To create a midi file, you should do something like:
CODE: SELECT ALL

dim buffer as any ptr

buffer=CreateMidi()
play buffer, "cdefgab"
SaveMidi ("file.midi", buffer)

Personally, I am Italian, and here we use the do-re-mi notation 

Re: Creating MIDI files using the classic 

basic PLAY command and MML
 by Roland Chastain » May 08, 2021 20:02

Thank you for the code example.

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 angros47 wrote:
Posts: 1008 Personally, I am Italian, and here we use the do-re-mi notation
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19:49 Sorry, my question was not clear. I was speaking of this. I was wondering
Location: France what is better to learn, MML or abc. It seems that there are more tools and
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Re: Creating MIDI files using the classic 

basic PLAY command and MML
 by angros47 » May 08, 2021 20:51

MML is not an alternative to ABC notation. It stands for "Music Macro

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Language", a format that uses ABC notation.
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E=mi, F=fa, G=sol, A=la, b=si). The original notation was in the do-re-mi
format, then the ABC format has been adopted because it was faster to write
The MML is a simple language, used originally in the older BASIC interpreters
(including MSX basic, BASICA and GwBasic), that uses the ABC notation.
Basically, the abc notation can be compared to the alphabet, and the MML
can be compared to the language. So, your questions sounds a bit like "What
is better to learn, the Latin alphabet or the English language?". To be able to
write in English you need to know both 

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 by Roland Chastain » Aug 01, 2022 19:48

Hello!
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I created a git repository for my Pascal version, with a lot of music examples
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Regards.
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Re: Creating MIDI files using the classic 

basic PLAY command and MML
 by grymmjack » Jan 10, 2023 2:07

 angros47 wrote: ↑ Jun 02, 2018 19:55

grymmjack
This program is a variant of the PLAY routine that, instead of playing the
Posts: 3 notes, creates a MIDI file with the sequence.
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1:23 This is a great idea! I post this to say thanks. I have not tried it, but I will.
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