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| 3812.1 | should work, but might easily not | SAUTER::SAUTER | John Sauter | Wed May 30 1990 14:05 | 7 | 
|  |     It should work, if you copy it in "image mode".  (That is, don't turn
    CRLFs into LFs.)  However, it might very well not work because of bugs
    in either the producer or consumer of the file.  Even on the Amiga I
    have not been able to write a non-trivial MIDI file with Music-X
    and read it back in without the music getting confused.  I don't know
    whether the reader or writer is at fault, but something's wrong.
        John Sauter
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| 3812.2 | SMF works for me | WILARD::ROSCETTI | A Spurious Char@cter | Tue Jun 05 1990 16:22 | 14 | 
|  |     
    I trade Midi sequences fairly regularly between an Amiga (using
    Music-X) and an Atari-ST. I have had no problems other than the
    actual limitations of SMF. ( note on/off, velocity, tracks, all
    come out fine). I generally avoid patch changes and tempo data
    The synths on each system are different, so Patch changes are
    useless anyway
    
    I have never tried actually trading disks. All transfers were done
    using either Kermit or Xmodem. Usually with a Vax as the intermediary.
               
    
    Brien
    
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| 3812.3 | SMF? | SAUTER::SAUTER | John Sauter | Tue Jun 05 1990 16:30 | 3 | 
|  |     What's SMF?  I think .0 is referring to MIDI File Format, which I've
    always heard abbreviated as MFF.
        John Sauter
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| 3812.4 | A rose by any other name still smells. | MCDONL::ROSCETTI | A Spurious Char@cter | Wed Jun 06 1990 14:47 | 14 | 
|  |     
    SMF = Standard Midi File
    
    I have heard it called all kinds of things - Standard Midi files,
    Midi File Format, Midi File Standard, Etc. We're talking about the
    same thing.
    
    Perhaps SMF is the spec that defines MFF. or vice/versa.
    
    I guess it says a lot about a Standard when even the name is
    questionable :^)
    
    brien
    
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