Topic by tractor_music

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Topic: Player piano ? Chaining midi files.

In my various experiments with PTQ I decided to try some midi files.
They work, most of them work very well, but I would like to stack up a series of them and let them run as background music while I "work".

I know, PTQ isn't an i-pod.
Has anyone figured a reasonable way of making PTQ load and play files from a play list ?
or just all the files in a selected folder ?
I'm not (yet) looking for "shuffle".

Again, I accept that it may have not been a design goal that PTQ should be a player piano, although for one file at a time it is a pretty good one.
I would just like it to also be a juke box :-D

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Re: Player piano ? Chaining midi files.

Install the Maple midi loopback driver and select your « out » port in Winamp’s MIDI preferences, launch Pianoteq and select the corresponding « in » Maple midi port.
Load your midi playlist in Winamp and you should be fine.

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Re: Player piano ? Chaining midi files.

CubicReg wrote:

Install the Maple midi loopback driver and select your « out » port in Winamp’s MIDI preferences, launch Pianoteq and select the corresponding « in » Maple midi port.
Load your midi playlist in Winamp and you should be fine.

Thanks,
So simple :-D
Maple's site was down this morning, so I got LoopBe instead and that works just fine.

Right now PTQ is running through a folder full of midi files of converted piano rolls.
I have hundreds of these, mostly collections from the 1920s, so right now it really is a player piano.
BTW, it is necessary to restart WinAmp after setting its midi_out to LoopBe.