The CMU MIDI Toolkit

Roger B. Dannenberg

Copyright 1993 Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA 15213, U.S.A.

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Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction and Overview
  • NIL
    • Other Details
  • Installing CMT
  • DOS IRQ and Base Address
  • Other Interface for PCs
    • SoundBlaster and MPU Compatible Interfaces
  • Files and Naming
    • Command Help
  • Software Structure
    • Support Modules
    • Moxc
    • Sequences
    • Applications
• The Adagio Language
  • Specifying Attributes
    • Time
    • Pitch
    • Duration
    • Next Time
    • Rest
    • Articulation
    • Loudness
    • Voice
    • Timbre (MIDI Program)
    • Tempo
    • Rate
  • Default Attributes
  • Examples
  • Advanced Features
    • Time Units and Resolution
    • Multiple Notes Per Line
    • Control Change Commands
    • Multiple Tempi
    • MIDI Synchronization
    • System Exclusive Messages
    • Control Ramps
    • The !End Command
    • Calling C Routines
    • Setting C Variables
  • Running Adagio
    • Midi Files and Adagio Files
    • Debugging Adagio Scores
    • Pausing
• Adagio in Transcribe Mode
  • Overview
  • Tutorial
  • Timbre
• Adagio in Record Mode
  • Overview
  • Tutorial
  • Merging Adagio Scores
    • Playing Two Scores in Sequence
    • Playing Two Scores at the Same Time
• Defining Nonstandard Tunings
  • The Tuning Program
    • Entering a Range of Pitches
    • Entering an Octave
    • Entering One Pitch
    • Saving a Tuning File.
  • The Retune Program
• MM - Midi Monitor
• Midiprt, A Standard Midi File Printer
  • Notes:
• EXGet and EXPut
  • EXGet
  • EXPut
• Programming in C
  • Introduction
  • Compiling a Program
  • Stopping a Program
  • Writing a Program
  • Writing a Procedure
  • Repeats
  • Conditions
  • Parameters
  • Producing Chords
  • Low-level Procedures
    • Other Procedures and Functions
• Moxc: Real-Time Programming Package
  • What Is Moxc?
  • An Example
  • More About cause
• Advanced Moxc Features
  • Timebases and Virtual Timevirtual time
• Cornucopia: A MIDI Mapper
  • Simple Example
  • Some Details
  • Syntax of Map files
  • Examples
  • Applications
• Conduct: A Conducting Program
• System Details
  • Introduction
  • Basic MIDI interface
    • Interface Design Issues
    • Interface Implementation For PC/XT/AT Clones
    • System Exclusive Messages
• What Next?
  • Compiler and System Conversions
  • Multi-Track Recording
  • File Output
  • Interacting with Moxc programs
  • Program Librarian
  • An Adagio Editor
  • Interfaces to XLISP and AREX
  • Graphics
  • Streams, Sources, and Sinks
• Appendix 1: The MIDI Interface
• Appendix 2: Non-MPU-401 MIDI Interfaces
  • Notes
  • Another Option for Sound Blaster Users
    • Default MPU-401 Configuration
    • Sound Blaster Configuration
  • More Information on SoundBlasters
  • Summary
• Appendix 3: Bug Report

• Index