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I have no scripting skill, but I was wondering if anyone has thought of or made a script that allows switch layers to be controlled by midi note-triggers similar to a package I believe is called Midi Motion for 3d animation.
This would really be cool for those of us wanting to do music videos or syncing animation to music more effectively.

It might be easier to use something like midi2abc to convert the MIDI to a text file, then convert the text file to a Switch data file.

midi2abc binaries (Mac/Win/Linux): http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/#abcMIDI

abcMIDI Source forge page: http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/

Possibly using the -midigram option to get timing: "a list of all notes in the
MIDI file are printed in a fixed format. Each line represents
a pair of MIDI note on/off event. The line contains the
on/off time of the note, its track number, channel number,
midi pitch and midi velocity. "

Regards, Myles.

gosh myles,
looks like you are another one of those recipients of that revolutionary brain compression technology- they take a whole bunch of knowledge and compress it into a normal size brain and then stick it into a normal person's head (some people are unwilling recipients, others are voluntary). Man!

Well, pretty much all you said was way over my head. I did download a whole bunch of stuff from those links but it sounds pretty complicated. I use Cakewalk Home Studio, which can export into different forms of midi. Any suggestions there?

Hi Alan,

you'd still need to write a script to create the Moho switch data.

However, writing a script to decode a binary MIDI file is probably hard work, except for 7feet/Brian.
Writing a script to read a text file, where each line represents details about a single musical note (including timing), is probably a lot easier.

The midi2abc file included in the abcMIDI set of programs enables you to convert a MIDI file into a text file.

Step 1: Run midi2abc - MIDI file in, text file out.
Step 2: Run your hypothetical script - text file in, switch data file out.

I just thought I'd make the task seem a little easier for any volunteer scripters.

Unless you are talking about using real-time triggers from a MIDI keyboard - which sounds like extra hard work.

Regards, Myles.

AlanPS wrote:I have no scripting skill, but I was wondering if anyone has thought of or made a script that allows switch layers to be controlled by midi note-triggers similar to a package I believe is called Midi Motion for 3d animation.
This would really be cool for those of us wanting to do music videos or syncing animation to music more effectively.

I agree and have been hoping for the same thing. I'm hoping to find a way to bridge bone movements with midi CC#. I've been warping pictures with the bones and this could be a cheap way to make psychedelic visuals for a performance.

they take a whole bunch of knowledge and compress it into a normal size brain

have you SEEN myles? his head is the size of a watermelon!