On Thursday, December 15, 2011 09:18:14 PM Brendan Jones did opine: > On 12/15/2011 11:02 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings everybody, midi folks in particular; > > > > I have a .mid file that plays using the wrong instruments because it > > was composed before GM. > > > > Sent to the built in synth in an audigy2, it plays at normal speed but > > wrong instruments. > > > > Loaded into rosegarden (to fix this), it plays at about 1/100th speed. > > This doesn't surprise me too much as the originating program dates to > > 1991 on a TRS-80 Color Computer 3& GM was something we only got in > > the then brand new Sound Canvas's and such. Obviously something in > > the header doesn't meet .mid file specs. I did change the internal > > name from .ume to .mid in a hex editor, and reloaded but other than > > the track title now showing the correct string, no other effect. > > > > In an effort to see what might be wrong, I fired up the print preview > > which uses lilypond to generate the 'sheet' music. But from the > > looks of it, its going to use 80% of all 4 cores of this phenom for > > several hours to render, probably because of this same time error, > > (transport says its like nearly 3 hours long, but its a bit over 3 > > mins in actual play time) so the generated pdf is likely to be 40Gb! > > > > Does anyone know enough about this to tell me where, in rosegarden, to > > fix this? Or do I need the hex editor again? Or, heaven forbid, its > > a bug in rosegarden (shudder). > > > > Thanks midi folks. > > > > Cheers, Gene > > Can you read the file using frescobaldi for example and set the tempo? > Frescobaldi is not in the pclos repos, sorry. I did just install 'abc2midi' which has some two way scripts in it, but I haven't run it yet. > If its not private/copyrighted, post the a link to the file. > > Brendan I expect it is copyrighted, its somebodies 'moused into Ultimuse-III' version of Brian Wilson's California Girls. If Cher has her way, it will never go out of copyright. :( I just tried midi2abc on it, and get either an "unexpected byte = 0x22" or a segfault. So either it has problems, or there is a bad byte(s) in this archive. If that is so, then likely I have several dozen other .ume's that I can load and re-export as .mid that will have the same set of symptoms. Thanks Brendan. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
