I agree that we really need a way to read/write binary data. I have already thought about doing a PR to add such functionality to graphical arrays. It would be as simple as adding a flag to the [read( and [write( methods.
In theory, it would be possible then to implement a MIDI file reader/writer as a Pd abstraction. But to be honest, I think only a masochist would do that :-)
On the other hand, mrpeach's [midifile] has always served me well and it's one of those things that don't really get obsolete. So I don't think that Pd really needs built-in MIDI file support. After all, even a kitchen-sink language like Supercollider doesn't come with built-in MIDI file support.
Christof
On 26.10.2020 11:11, Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 03:32 -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
It feels to me Vanilla should be able to read/write MIDI files, but I wonder how. Any ideas on how this could work in a "vanilla way" (light and simple)?
To use Miller's words from another thread, I think reading/writing MIDI files would be an application for which the infrastructure is still missing: reading from/writing to binary files (unless I missed some recent development).
Both would be cool, accessing them from disk directly and load/dump them to/from tables.
Roman
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