Re: OT: iTunes and MIDI
Re: OT: iTunes and MIDI
- Subject: Re: OT: iTunes and MIDI
- From: Stephen Davis <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:37:37 -0800
On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Steve deRosier wrote:
All,
Sorry, this is a bit off topic, but I didn't know where else to ask
and I figured some of the people involved in iTunes might be here.
Can iTunes (Mac or Win versions, either or both), play a MIDI file
as MIDI? I know it can add MIDI files to the library, and that if
you play them it uses QuickTime to convert them to audio and output
via speakers, but we have someone telling a customer of ours that
you can plug in a USB-MIDI device and get MIDI out of iTunes.
I tried it myself, and even w/ the MIDI device connected, iTunes
used QuickTime to syntasize audio, and I couldn't find any option
to change that.
Is it possible to get iTunes to play a MIDI file to MIDI Out, or is
this guy feeding miss-information to our customers? Perhaps it is
different on a Windows box?
Thanks for any help,
- Steve
iTunes uses QuickTime to play the MIDI file so it is up to QT to
determine what happens to that data. QT has the notion of a "default
synthesizer" which is normally set to the built-in one which
synthesizes the audio. If (and I have no idea if this is possible or
not) you can install another synthesizer that spits the MIDI out of
the computer via a MIDI port then you can probably select that synth
in the QT prefs and get the behavior you're talking about.
You should probably ask this question on one of the QuickTime mailing
lists because someone there can no doubt answer this question.
hth,
stephen
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