----------------------------------- Dwindle Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:56 pm A good MIDI writing/edting library? ----------------------------------- I need to find an easy to use library for writing midi files. Can somebody recommend one, and probably walk me through how to install it later? I'm using dev-cpp. ----------------------------------- Geminias Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:37 am ----------------------------------- what are midi files? sorry i can't help but i'm interested to know what they are. is it the music encoding? ----------------------------------- wtd Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:57 am ----------------------------------- http://midiio.sapp.org/ I have absolutely no experience with it, but it was the first result in a Google search for "midi c++ cross platform". ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:38 pm ----------------------------------- Midi (.mid or .midi) files contain information that the computer generates into music. The files are usually only a few kb in size because they don't actually hold a recording, the song is played by the computer based on whatever midi library is available. So no, it's not really a kind of encoding. If you're interested in creating your own midi files do a google search for some midi creation software. For more info, check wikipedia.org. ----------------------------------- Dwindle Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:15 pm ----------------------------------- Well you see, I'm not totally incompetent and I already did try google searching it. I came across this before but I didnt know how to use it. It's just one big text file. Do I just include the text file in a program where I making midi files? ----------------------------------- Geminias Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:49 am ----------------------------------- you could actually google it... if your not totally incompetant. ----------------------------------- Dwindle Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:23 am ----------------------------------- what? I said I DID already try googling it. ----------------------------------- md Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:51 pm ----------------------------------- I would recoment ignoring geminias, he seems to be rather thick of late. As for your question I'm sure that there is some documentation for the library on it's site, just have a look around. An important part of writing programs is being able to find and read documentation :P ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:31 pm ----------------------------------- Come on, it's not [url=http://midiio.sapp.org/doc/]THAT hard to find on their site ;).