Phil Taylor wrote:
> 
> >You've got BarFly, which can create MIDI itself, so why do you need
> >to bother with abc2midi?
> 
> BarFly creates midi by first making a QT movie, then using Quicktime to
> convert that to midi.  Since Quicktime has no notion of key, time signature
> or even what length of notated note corresponds to a given duration, the
> resulting midi causes untold pain to music notation programs, although it
> plays beautifully.

That's right. BarFly makes some of the best automatically created midi
files there are for playback, but they're completely useless for
conversion purposes.

> 
> Something else I'm going to fix soon...

Great, as long as you remember not to throw the baby out with the bathwater!


Frank Nordberg
http://www.musicaviva.com
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