Modartt user forum - Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (Tablabroke) — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:36:01 +0000

With a bit of tweaking and fiddling I've managed to get foobar2000 working with Pianoteq. foobar isn't the most user-friendly program, but then again it's free, and it seems to be quite powerful if you add in some of the optional components. I'm also downloading Winamp to try out, but in the meantime thanks again, and thanks foobar!

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (Tablabroke) — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 02:02:05 +0000

Thanks for your great suggestions. I'll try out a couple of them and will report back on the best option.

BTW -- Lylo: Vanbasco ne peut pas être utilisé avec Windows 7, n'est-ce pas? Ou peut-on l'exécuter avec succès en mode d'émulation? Merci beaucoup!

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (Lylo) — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:44:36 +0000

http://www.vanbasco.com/ with http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (delt) — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:02:54 +0000

On linux or mac, it's trivial to play a bunch of midi files:

for file in *.mid; do
  pianoteq --play-and-quit --midi "$file"
done

Add --headless if you don't want the user interface window to popup when playing each file.

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (kalessin) — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:13:23 +0000

Just a shot in the dark, but foobar2000 apparently has a MIDI add-in that even seems to be able to use VST instruments directly...

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_midi

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (custral) — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:39:52 +0000

Winamp does a respectable job, via LoopBe, of jukeboxing. It can no longer be bought, rights to use of the name being sold to anonymous interests, but the final release (ending in ".666") should work still. Connect LoopBe to Winamp (using Preferences>Plugins>Input) to Nullsoft MIDI Player. Default mode on Pianoteq's Options>Devices page is Listen To All MIDI Inputs, and so will hear the other end of the LoopBe cable.

With low polyphony situations LoopBe1 works well. Confronting virtuoso masses of keystrokes it crashes, and LoopBe30 will have to be bought, quite cheap.

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (DonSmith) — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:10:30 +0000

I could see way someone would request the Jukebox function. The pianos you've made playing your own recordings, or other midi files. You can collect a lot of midi files over the years.
It definitely could do with a revamp. Give it a bigger and detachable/resizeable panel like the [Equalizer], [Effects] panels. I would like to see it make more use of the elements that it already has, like making that small sound spectrum analyser larger and fall over the notes of the keyboard. There already exist great tutorial features. I love the fact that you could use the left and right arrow keys to play the midi file one note at a time. It just could benefit from a better layout.

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (Tablabroke) — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 03:03:08 +0000

Hi BryceJ

Don't know if you remember writing this post. I'm just trying to set up a MIDI playlist for my own recordings, and have downloaded LoopBe1, but I'm not sure what to do next to connect it to a MIDI player. Will this work with Wiindows Media Player? If so, how do I make the connection between the two programs? (Sorry for being so ignorant...) Is there a better (freeware/inexpensive) MIDI player than WMP?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (BryceJ) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:27:13 +0000

Thanks Niclas,

That is an amazing little tool. It opens up a lot of possibilities. I was able to connect a MIDI player to Pianoteq

EvilDragon,

I agree that only using Pianoteq as a MIDI player would be missing the point of the software, but a MIDI keyboard takes care of that. These are the best piano sounds that I could find in such an easy to use package.

Thanks for all your help.

Cheers.

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (EvilDragon) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:24:08 +0000

You're missing the point if you're only gonna use Pianoteq as a MIDI file player.

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (Niclas Fogwall) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:28:09 +0000

Maybe this will do?
http://nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html
(tried this myself, works beautifully)

Re: Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (jcfelice88keys) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:21:36 +0000

Hello Bryce,

I understand what you are trying to do.

Before answering your question, I did a quick Google search of MIDI jukebox software, and noticed there is some inexpensive shareware that might do what you are trying to do. Try your own Google search and see what you find.

Pianoteq, taken by itself, is a virtual musical instrument -- through which the sounds are rendered per instructions given by a live keyboardist with appropriate midi hardware, or from a midi file.

There is an expensive Digital Audio Workstation called Digital Performer (mac only, but there might be others compatible with the PC platform) that has a feature called "chunks". Imagining how it might be used in a situation such as yours, you would have to only assign each midi file to a given chunk -- one time -- and then drag them in any order and in any quantity into Digital Performer, and press play.

I suppose this is similar to GarageBand, wherein you assign the product of individual midi files to some type of musical "unit", and then select as needed and press play.

Hope this sheds some light on your question.

Cheers,

Joe

Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

null@example.com (BryceJ) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:03:33 +0000

I am using the trial version of Pianoteq 3 and I would like to know if anyone could tell me of a simple way to use it to play a list of MIDI files.

The idea would be to have a large number of MIDI files that a person could select from for playback. Once selected they should be played in order by Pianoteq 3. Think of it like a jukebox.

Although the "Load MIDI file" menu options works, the user must click the play button to start playback. Is there any way to have the playback start automatically?

All suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.