OT: Little MIDI app for MacOS

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BuonTempi
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Post by BuonTempi » Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:23 pm

Any Mac user who has upgraded to Catalina may have noticed that there is now no easy way of playing MIDI files, unless you load them into a Logic or Garageband.

(The old QuickTime Player v7 is 32-bit; the new QuickTime Player X opens MIDI files, but won't actually play them! :roll: )

Anyway, if you want a lightweight app that will play MIDI files, I've written one, and you can download it here:

https://github.com/benwiggy/APPlayMIDI/releases

As an added bonus for Finale users, you can Copy any loaded MIDI file onto the clipboard, and then paste it into a Finale document using MIDI/Audio > MIDI Clipboard > Import MIDI from Clipboard.

It's scraping the limits of my programming abilities, but is mostly entirely boilerplate code, so shouldn't cause any trouble.


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miker
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Post by miker » Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:46 am

Thanks for that, BT. I’ve always used Sweet MIDI Player, but I’ll certainly give yours a try!
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apkyburz
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Post by apkyburz » Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:16 pm

Stellar, thanks BT!

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