Thanks Miller, Christof, Patko,

midi2sco looks really good, I also found midi2csv which does a similar
job, keeping the midi pitch notation but possibly specifying time in
midi ticks, hence needing some polishing of the results as well.

best, Peter

* Miller Puckette <mpuckette@cloud.ucsd.edu> [2023-04-22 13:26]:
> I've been using the "midi2sco" program to convert MIDI files to csound
> scores and then either reading the csound straight into a text object (read
> -c message so end-of-line terminates lists) - and/or writing simple awk
> scripts to change csound pitch notation back into MIDI pitches and convert
> times to milliseconds.
>
> cheers
>
> Miller
>
> On 4/22/23 12:57, Christof Ressi wrote:
> > You can read the MIDI file with [mrpeach/midifile], output everything in
> > a loop and save the MIDI messages in a [text] object. You just need to
> > calculate the appropriate time delta between messages.
> >
> > Christof
> >
> > On 22.04.2023 07:46, Peter P. wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > starting to use [text sequence] instead of [qlist] more and more, I am
> > > wondering how difficult it might be to write an external script that
> > > converts .mid file into .txt usable by [textfile sequence]?
> > >
> > > Has anyone attempted something similar already? What would be the
> > > easiest language and/or libraries to do this on DebianGNU Linux?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
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