Midi file correction

[whit6634]

there's a song by Chairman of the Board, called Give me just a little more time. The song format is wrong or something because it doesn't play in my keyboard. Can it be corrected because I would like to use it.

[levi2]

works fine on the pc in midifile players have you checked what format you keyboard accepts format 0 format 1 or both

[JohnG]

Hi Whit,

If you use the freebie "Anvil Studio" you will find that it has a "repair file" function. Also it can save in MIDI file 0 format which is the normal format used by hardware sequencers and "workstation" keyboards.

It also contains more than 100 empty tracks with rubbish in them. I can post you a repaired version if you post the original to my normal email address. garsidejl(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk. You know what to do with the bits in brackets!

Hope that Helps?
JohnG.

[JazzCat]

He sent me the file and I saw no 'rubbish' in 100s of tracks. I did a little 'clean up' on the file and sent it back to him but he has not responded as of yet.

[JohnG]

Aha JazzCat,

That's because, like so many sequencers, Record Producer doesn't display all the info. in a MIDI file, especially if it consists of meta data. The combination of XGworks and HexEdit shows up all the rubbish that some bits of sequencing software dump into a file. That particular file had more than 100 tracks most of which had just a few bytes of meta data in them. I can quite easily understand why a hardware sequencer might "throw a wobbly" with all that cr@p.

The only piece of sequencing software which shows 99.5% of it is XGworks. Even if it doesn't display it, it marks the track as containing data, and then I know to brush off HexEdit, fire up the hexadecimal part of my brain, not the octal bit, and search for instances of "MTrk" then see what follows them. Then go back to XGworks and delete the tracks full of rubbish.

But these are the actions of a "nerd" not a normal person!

HTH,
JohnG.