[sdiy] recording MIDI data

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In a message dated 3/10/04 12:42:33 PM, jbv.silences at club-internet.fr writes:

<< But what if the MIDI data stream lasts for hours ? >>

Most, if not all, professional-quality MIDI sequence software programs will 
have no problem recording for hours.  Film composers sometimes have to create 
very dense sequences that last a couple of hours.  If your data stream is very 
dense and continuous, this may be a bit of a problem -- depending on the 
sequencer that you use and how it buffers and stores incoming data (most store 
newly recorded data into RAM, not directly to hard disk, but there are {or were] a 
few sequencers that record directly to disk).  If the data stream is sparse, 
then you should be able to record for hours and hours, maybe even days.  
Incoming events are assigned a "time stamp", and it doesn't matter how much empty 
space is between them, so only the actual events get recorded, not the space 
(other than a minimal amount of data that represents the overall beat map).  The 
absolute field reliability of such a computer-based system may not always be 
what you'd want, though.

<<  Please don't ask me what I have in mind... :)  >>

So, what do you have in mind?

Michael Bacich