 Midi Playback Problems, complex PC MIDI won't play on MAC |
 Tue 24 May 2005, 01:24
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Hello and I hope I'm in the right forum for this one.
I've got a lot of semi-pro MIDI produced on PCs using Turtle Beach sound cards and QSE, Cakewalk and other sequencers. The more complex ones (with a lot of events and controls) always bog down and stop when I play them back on my eMac G4, 1 gig memory using the internal QuickTime synthesizer. Doesn't matter which software program I use to play the MIDI, I suppose it all uses the internal synth. What is the solution here? I want to be able to play and edit these MIDIs on the Mac. Thanks and regards! |
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 Fri 27 May 2005, 02:50
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Glad it helped
 Now I'm playing Stomp right now in Quicktime, the average CPU is 10% on my mono G5 1.8. A peak at 2 places at 29 %. Maybe you kill the G4  What I don't understand is there are places where the sound stops, CPU is still high (29-31%)… I wonder if there's not something fishy in the file itself. And here there's CPU to spare, and a SATA drive… strange…Does the midi file load correctly? Performer doesn't seem to like it. 
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Fri 27 Apr 2007, 00:36
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QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ Fri 27 May 2005, 01:50)  Glad it helped Now I'm playing Stomp right now in Quicktime, the average CPU is 10% on my mono G5 1.8. A peak at 2 places at 29 %. Maybe you kill the G4 What I don't understand is there are places where the sound stops, CPU is still high (29-31%)… I wonder if there's not something fishy in the file itself. And here there's CPU to spare, and a SATA drive… strange…Does the midi file load correctly? Performer doesn't seem to like it. Been a long time since I've been back. If you're still following this thread, the MIDIs stomp and pennies from heaven at http://lamplightmus.topcities.com and other MIDi with a lot of pedal instructions seem to overload the soft synth on the Mac. Quick time adds a bit of reverb and sustain itself and MIDI that I've done on PC seem to not convert well - the piano pedal events and passages with a lot of notes seem to overload and the playback stops. I've seen this continue to the intel imacs as well. I just decided to convert those MIDI to MP3 for the benefit of Mac listeners - hard to go back and recode an improv and get it with that live feel and sound. I don't like using Windows so I had to adjust to what the Mac does and how well and what you have to pay to get the results you want. |
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lamplighter Midi Playback Problems Tue 24 May 2005, 01:24
lamplighter After 14 views and no replies, maybe I'd bette... Tue 24 May 2005, 04:52 reddish hey Lamplighter... first off welcome to the forums... Wed 25 May 2005, 08:20 lamplighter Thanks, reddish, for your reply. I posted in the ... Thu 26 May 2005, 00:38 lamplighter Check that first link - it should be:
http://www.... Thu 26 May 2005, 00:40 lepetitmartien Just a pick-a-boo, if people look on a thread and ... Thu 26 May 2005, 03:06 lamplighter Thanks, lepetitemartien, for your reply.
The issue... Thu 26 May 2005, 16:08 lepetitmartien If you want details, I think a tour on the ADC (Ap... Thu 26 May 2005, 21:10 lamplighter Thanks for your advice - been to ADC - lots of inf... Fri 27 May 2005, 01:23 kaboombahchuck Ok,, logic here..
To figure out what the problem i... Fri 27 May 2005, 14:26 oaomdal Hi, I thougt it would be a good idea to reply to y... Thu 26 Apr 2007, 00:11
lamplighter I solved this a long time ago. In the Mac communi... Fri 27 Apr 2007, 00:22 gdoubleyou Take a look at the file in an event editor, there ... Fri 27 Apr 2007, 20:24 |
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