There is also the [c_seqplay] abstraction in rjlib which can playback txt files output from [seq] by Max or Cyclone's seq. It's pure vanilla, so once you have done the conversion, you don't need additional externals for playing. It was written before [text] and uses [textfile] so maybe useful to examine as a reference?

https://github.com/rjdj/rjlib

That being said, I also use mrpeach midifile to work with MIDI directly. I have a wrapper, [c_midiplay], in my rc-bastractions which outputs to the internal messaging so you can receive events visa the traditional [notein], [ctlin], etc objects:

https://github.com/danomatika/rc-patches

On Apr 22, 2023, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

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Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 07:46:28 +0200
From: "Peter P." <peterparker@fastmail.com>
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Subject: [PD] midi file into [text sequence]?
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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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