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How do I get Audacity to play MIDI?
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 5:44 pm
by tdehan
Not sure what is missing here, however after I import a MIDI file and click PLAY nothing happens. in the bottom left corner of the application is says STOPPED. How do I get this thing to play?
Windows 10 Pro
1607 (OS Build 14393.693)
Audacity 2.1.2 .exe installer
Re: How do I get Audacity to play MIDI?
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:18 pm
by kozikowski
Audacity has very basic MIDI file management without actually playing or making MIDI files.
I think the best you can do is get your computer MIDI interpreter to play the file and record it in Audacity by setting it to "Record What's Playing On The Computer." This is the same setting you would use to record YouTube or other on-line music.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tuto ... puter.html
MIDI isn't music. It's machine control and it needs special software to
turn it into music.
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 79#p310179
Koz
Re: How do I get Audacity to play MIDI?
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 1:21 am
by steve
Audacity does not currently have he ability to play MIDI (
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_ ... .html#midi)
Re: How do I get Audacity to play MIDI?
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 6:57 pm
by tdehan
so let me get this straight. Audacity has the ability to import MIDi files and display all the parts but does not have the ability to play the MIDI files? That's whacked!
Re: How do I get Audacity to play MIDI?
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 7:18 pm
by steve
tdehan wrote:so let me get this straight
see here in the manual:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_ ... .html#midi
Re: How do I get Audacity to play MIDI?
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 2:57 pm
by Gale Andrews
tdehan wrote:That's whacked!
It's because MIDI playback is not a fully finished feature and its interactions with audio playback and certain parts of the Audacity interface could cause crashes.
A volunteer is looking at the MIDI playback code and discussing it with the developers at the moment, so it is possible that progress might be made.
You can enable experimental MIDI playback if you recompile Audacity and define USE_MIDI and EXPERIMENTAL_MIDI_OUT.
Gale
Re: How do I get Audacity to play MIDI?
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 3:29 pm
by steve
Gale Andrews wrote:You can enable experimental MIDI playback if you recompile Audacity and define USE_MIDI and EXPERIMENTAL_MIDI_OUT.
though there is no guarantee that it will work because it's unfinished and experimental (it didn't work for me).
Re: How do I get Audacity to play MIDI?
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 3:39 pm
by tdehan
so, am I able to edit MIDI files from with Audacity?
Re: How do I get Audacity to play MIDI?
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 5:05 pm
by steve
Audacity does not actually have "MIDI" tracks. it has "Note Tracks". Note tracks are based on the Allegro format which supports many more features than MIDI. When a MIDI track is imported into Audacity, note data from the MIDI file is converted into Allegro note data and displayed in the Note Track. Note Tracks may be exported in MIDI or Allegro format. Audacity can currently do a limited amount of editing on "Note Tracks", such as cut, copy, paste.