Hello Alexandre,

Yes, [else/midi] v.1.0.0 rc-7 can do it, but... It's Text format is not fully time-wise compatible with [cyclone/seq] v.0.7.0 output.

Examples using the same MIDI file saved as TEXTE file:
[else/midi] -> file.txt with delta time (ms) between 2 successive lines
39.0625 153 53 0;
46.875 151 84 0;
0 151 81 70;
13.0208 145 36 11;
5.20833 153 81 66;
0 177 1 0;
0 225 0 64;
39.0625 153 81 0;
65.1042 153 81 56;
39.0625 153 81 0;
65.1042 153 51 51;
39.0625 153 51 0;
65.1042 153 81 59;
39.0625 153 81 0;
0 145 36 0;
65.1042 153 81 58;

[cyclone/seq] -> file.txt with cumulative delta time (ms) from the beginning of the song
7565.1 153 53 0;
7611.98 151 84 0;
7611.98 151 81 70;
7625 145 36 11;
7630.21 153 81 66;
7630.21 177 1 0;
7630.21 225 0 64;
7669.27 153 81 0;
7734.37 153 81 56;
7773.44 153 81 0;
7838.54 153 51 51;
7877.6 153 51 0;
7942.71 153 81 59;
7981.77 153 81 0;
7981.77 145 36 0;
8046.87 153 81 58;

It would be useful if both MIDI Sequencer objects can directly share the same Text format, for both file.txt and object's [print output], so previous files.txt done with [cyclone/seq] can be directly reused with [else/midi].

Thanks.
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Best, Joe
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Le 22/04/2023 à 20:31, Alexandre Torres Porres a écrit :
Hi, the [else/midi] object can save a midi file to text in a format that can be used in [text]. 

Em sáb., 22 de abr. de 2023 às 10:00, Peter P. <peterparker@fastmail.com> escreveu:
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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