Martin Peach wrote:
I'm not sure if there's a standard way of doing microtonal music in MIDI, i.e. do you use Pitch Bend on every note or Continuous Controller?
So I parsed the file lou.mid from http://works.music.columbia.edu/~chris/micromidi/ using midifile and find that here it's the pitch wheel on almost every note: midifile: Parsing track[1]... midifile: tick 0 delta 0 status C0 MIDI: 0xC0 2E: channel 1 Program Change: 46 midifile: tick 480 delta 480 status E0 MIDI: 0xE0 00 40 : channel 1 Pitch Wheel 8192 midifile: tick 480 delta 0 status 90 MIDI 0x90 3C 63 : channel 1 Note 60 On velocity 99 midifile: tick 960 delta 480 status 80 MIDI 0x80 3C 00 : channel 1 Note 60 Off velocity 0 midifile: tick 3120 delta 2160 status E0 MIDI: 0xE0 12 34 : channel 1 Pitch Wheel 6674 midifile: tick 3120 delta 0 status 90 MIDI 0x90 3D 4F : channel 1 Note 61 On velocity 79 midifile: tick 3600 delta 480 status 80 MIDI 0x80 3D 00 : channel 1 Note 61 Off velocity 0 ...
Martin