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From: arensb@cvl.umd.edu (Andrew Arensburger)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Request for ASCII to MIDI conversion program
Summary: Clarification
Keywords: midi ascii music conversion
Message-ID: <4349@cvl.umd.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 90 21:31:33 GMT
References: <1388@mountn.dec.com>
Reply-To: arensb@cvl.UUCP (Andrew Arensburger)
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Organization: Center for Automation Research, Univ. of Md.
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>In the original article, I wrote:
>	Does anyone have a PD program that will convert ASCII text into a
>MIDI format file?

>And grasmann@atps.dec.com (Aspirations of a higher nature) replied:
>What do you consider ASCII text??  Something like, "G#EbC"?  What kind of
>syntax are you looking for?

	Maybe I should make my meaning more clear: ASCII text, for the
purposes of this request, is any sequence of characters in the range 
0-127.
	I'm writing a sequencer that takes MIDI format files as input and
plays them back. For testing purposes, I'd like to be able to create an
arbitrary MIDI file, without resorting to a binary editor.
	I'm using a vanilla PC, so ideally, I'd like to get an executable
file for that machine, although I have access to a Macintosh and several
BSD machines, so Mac executables and Unix sources would be fine, too.
	The main point of my request is that this is purely a one-shot
debugging tool, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time or effort in get-
ting it.

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