Pianoteq 3 as a MIDI file player

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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!