Re: Please help: I need to create a midi file using C language and "truncated fourier series"

On 13 Sep 2005 05:00:51 -0700, "david" <aass000999@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>1.I am considering doing a simple midi file generator for my
> 4th year project in B.SC.
>2.I would do it using c language, but i'm not sure how
> difficult it would be.
>3.Basically, the executable c program would read a text document
> with some "musical pseudocode" representing some `tune`.
> Then convert the "musical pseudocode" into "midi code" that
> could be played in any midi player like `windows media player`.
>4.How would you do this?

Look up the midi file specification, for a start.

>5.I hear that you could use `truncated fourier series`; but how to
> do this?

I can't imagine how fourier series could possibly
have anything to do with generating midi files.

>6.Also, how to re-create various musical instruments?

??? Are you trying to generate midi files or write something
to _play_ midi files? They're entirely different questions.

(If you're trying to write a midi file _player_ then
you need to know how to make sounds like various instruments,
and yes, fourier series could have something to do with
that. Truncation is probably not the best choice, but
this is a very long story, and it has nothing to do
with what you said the project was in any case.)

>7.Please give me some quick guidence on the above issues.
>8.Thanks.


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David C. Ullrich
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