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Title: Soundshaper doesn t read MIDI files
Post by: Phoenix cat on October 29, 2025, 07:45:58 PM

I try with TOOLS>MIDI TO SEQ and select a .mid file and I got this message "Failed to execute mf2t.exe". And I cant find documentation about what is posible with mid files. What is happening? what is possible with CDP, with a midi file?

Title: Re: Soundshaper doesn t read MIDI files
Post by: j_p_higgins on October 30, 2025, 12:29:39 PM

There is some info on this in this thread here: https://unstablesound.net/cdpforum/index.php?topic=203.0
Seems it has been having some issues and is being considered for removal.

mf2t doesn't seem to have documentation on the CDP website that I can find but it is an adaption of this software: https://github.com/reinierdevalk/mf2t-t2mf

Its intended use in CDP seems to be to take a midi file and use it to generate a sequence file (see: https://www.composersdesktop.com/docs/html/filestxt.htm#SEQUENCEFILES ). I don't know of any other cdp processes that accept a midi file as input but there might be some I am unaware of!

Title: Re: Soundshaper doesn t read MIDI files
Post by: simonk on October 30, 2025, 02:51:43 PM

Apart from the (currently) problematic use in Soundshaper

I believe midi files can be used for input to Tabula Vigilans (tv) or ProcessPack
More info here:
https://www.composersdesktop.com/pdf/tvinfopgnew.pdf

https://www.composersdesktop.com/interfaces.html

Title: Re: Soundshaper doesn t read MIDI files
Post by: Phoenix cat on October 31, 2025, 08:09:42 AM

thanks, I will look into that links

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