Klarinet Archive - Posting 001246.txt from 1998/05

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] download PD MIDI files
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 17:23:39 -0400

>On the subject of MIDI and music notation files, there are several web
>sites that offer "sheet music" in MIDI format, but I can't figure out
>how to download the files. When I click on them, they just play for me,
>and that's that. If the same music is available for downloading as .pdf
>files, how can I download the MIDI files (I'm using the Lime program,
>which seems to be far superior to some other music notation software,
>and it does import and export MIDI files). There's some nice clarinet
>music available, but the downloaded .pdf files are terrible in several
>cases (unreadable), so if I can manipulate them in Lime, I'll have some
>decent sheet music.

If the bad pdf files are on my site, please let me know.

In any case, you should be able to "right click" on the midi file and do a
"save as" from your browser.

Be aware that making a reasonably good piece of sheet music from a MIDI file
is _hard_; MIDI files have the notes, timing, and dynamics but editing the
notation for readability (never mind just getting triplets to show up
correctly) is difficult.

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Mark Charette, Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
charette@-----.org

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