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Hi,

I wonder if it is possible to play midifiles (.MID files format 0 or format 1) ?

I suppose runrev supports that via quicktime, but the tricky question is ...

Can we play midifiles using a different soundset than the one provided via quicktime, by using an external .DLS (soundfont like) soundbank ?

Any tip ?

Thanks.

titobal,

No, you can't do that, but it should be possible to add more/different instruments/syntesizers to QuickTime (I have no experience with that). Of course, you could also write an external that reads midi files and produces sound through Mac OS X's sound API's, but I guess that's not what you want.

Btw simple midi 0 and 1 is indeed possible. There is an example stack somewhere that does this.

Best,

Mark

Thanks for your answer,

this is true indeed, that is not what I am looking for...

This is why I've digged into www.fmod.org crossplatform sound/streams management solution, but there is no support for runrev ... too bad,
this solution would have filled something missing in runrev ... perhaps we should add it in a wish list somewhere...

Thanks again.

Hi Titobal,

This might be useful if you have Mac OS X.

Kind regards,

Mark