[HN Gopher] MIDI Editor
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MIDI Editor
Author : brudgers
Score : 41 points
Date : 2023-12-07 02:53 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.midieditor.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.midieditor.org)
| Rochus wrote:
| Nice, but there are already a lot of such tools. What is the core
| benefit of this one specifically compared to the others?
| reactordev wrote:
| The software seems to be abandoned. There are dozens of issues
| and PR's open from several years back. Surely someone who was
| asking for donations would be attentive of the software of which
| those donations are based, no?
| vjvjvj wrote:
| exactly. when you donate to an open source project you aren't
| supporting past development at all. you are instead entitled to
| getting whatever feature implemented you want.
| mksybr wrote:
| If you donate to an open source project you are entitled to
| getting whatever feature implemented?
|
| /s?
| shric wrote:
| > /s?
|
| I thought the GP was so obviously sarcasm that it didn't
| need an explicit tag
| anigbrowl wrote:
| Perhaps they stopped maintaining it due to the lack of support.
| jacquesm wrote:
| Hm... maybe I should make the owner an offer? I definitely
| think this software should be preserved.
| guseyn wrote:
| This is one is also good: unisonofficial.com
| ipsum2 wrote:
| That's not a MIDI editor, its a custom music language. Also
| it's paid, not open source.
| unleaded wrote:
| sorry to add to the somewhat negative comments but I used to use
| this for editing MIDIs and I eventually moved to Sekaiju
| http://openmidiproject.opal.ne.jp/Sekaiju_en.html , it's a lot
| nicer for doing more complex/low-level MIDI work although the UI
| is a bit painful and it's kind of slow but that might just be my
| old computer and/or Wine. it's also free and open source (or as
| FOSS as a win32 application can be if that bothers you)
| ale42 wrote:
| Sekaiju looks good, thanks for mentioning it!
| ipsum2 wrote:
| Crashes frequently doing normal operations like panning on
| Windows.
| FluffySamoyed wrote:
| I used this software some time ago to edit a couple MIDI files
| with mouse and (computer) keyboard, mainly for altering melody
| tracks, fixing some wrong chords and adding drums. I found this
| tool pretty intuitive to use and liked it a lot.
|
| I had previously tried Sekaiju and another tool whose name I
| forgot, but I felt like they were aimed at more experienced users
| and assumed a higher level of knowledge about MIDI terms and
| concepts (of which I know very little), so much of the interface
| went over my head. MIDI Editor was good enough for my simpler use
| case.
| jacquesm wrote:
| Funny to see this here. I use it all the time, but it tends to
| crash too often so be sure to save your work frequently. It is
| very good when it does work though and I wished I could motivate
| the author to fix the bugs. I'd put the time in myself if I had a
| development environment set up for it.
| adamrezich wrote:
| any other good general-purpose MIDI editors? my friends and I
| used Anvil Studio a lot back in the day despite it being kind of
| atrocious--always wondered if there was something better out
| there these days
| somat wrote:
| LMMS appears to work as such. I have to admit I am not a
| musician and my only use of it was to test some midi control
| input from a midi dials and buttons box I was playing with. So
| it may be terrible for actual music creation for all I know.
|
| https://lmms.io/
|
| Update: so I looked at it a bit, still not a musician but it
| looks like lmms can only export single midi tracks at a time.
| So probably useless for actually creating a midi song. If you
| really wanted to beat your self up you could set up each track
| as a midi output channel, then play the song while recording
| the midi stream. But that does not sound like much fun to me.
| unleaded wrote:
| Until/unless it gets fixed LMMS is awful for working with
| MIDI files, it puts all the events on one channel and there's
| no way around it other than maybe saving each track as a
| separate file and combining them with something else..
| unleaded wrote:
| https://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33561#p78706
|
| "Not many devs have the requisite knowledge of MIDI" ..in a
| DAW?
| livrem wrote:
| Back in the day there was a very nice and simple little MIDI
| sequencer for X-Windows called Seq24 that I used every now and
| then. Of course there are much more complex music software that
| also happens to have MIDI-support (LMMS, Renoise, ...) but I
| liked Seq24 because it only did short MIDI patterns and had
| quite good GUI (holding down various modifiers and using the
| different mouse-buttons to do most edits).
|
| Searching I get a link to a URL that looks like it could have
| been the Seq24 home page, but Firefox throws up a security
| warning for that domain. There is also a hit for this project
| that claims to be based on Seq24 and that has commits as
| recently as a few days ago, so maybe this is worth looking at:
|
| https://github.com/ahlstromcj/seq66
| TheActualWalko wrote:
| If you're looking for a free app to edit MIDI, check out
| wavtool.com!
|
| We're not open source, but our free product has pretty good MIDI
| editing for conventional use cases. There's also an interactive
| MIDI composition AI model.
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