MIDI decoder

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By: kode54

Adds decoding support for General MIDI files (.MID) and RIFF MIDI files (.RMI) as well as several proprietary MIDI formats (.MIDS, .MDS, .HMI, .HMP, .MUS, .XMI, .LDS).
Plays through either a built-in "chip tune"-like synthesizer called "Emu de MIDI," through VST instruments installed to %programfiles%\Steinberg\VstPlugins, or through the built-in FluidSynth or BASSMIDI SoundFont synthesizers.

Version 1.152 highlights: Updated BASSMIDI library.


VST Instrument support requires a path to be configured in the Advanced section of Preferences before opening the regular MIDI decoder configuration page. It is recommended that you only include instruments you may wish to use in this directory.

MT-32 support requires either the PCM and control ROMs for either the MT-32 or CM-32L to be located in the directory configured in Preferences.

SoundFont list files are plain text files with the file name extension .SFLIST. They are assumed to be UTF-8 encoded, unless they contain an appropriate UTF-16LE byte order marker. A simple way to create a list for a given directory of SoundFont files from a cmd.exe prompt:

C:\soundfonts\>chcp 65001
C:\soundfonts\>dir /b *.sf2 > soundfonts.sflist

The chcp command switches the command prompt to the UTF-8 code page so that Unicode file names will be written to the list file properly.

You may also copy the names from Explorer and paste them into Notepad or another Unicode capable text editor.

Current version

1.152, released on 2012-01-28

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