Hi,
I've been using Linux for twenty years or so and have been a strong advocate of it. While I'm technically quite strong, I haven't used it for music beyond a quick tussle with Audacity multi-tracking, and now I have a need to do just that.
My girlfriend is a singer. Her current setup is on Windows 7 (I know, don't judge), where she has a collection of around 4000 MIDI files, all with embedded lyrics. She uses software called Van Basco to play the MIDI files, control them to a small extent (eg, maybe disabling the guitar channel when she's playing with a live guitarist). Van Basco also, crucially, can display the lyrics in large font in a separate window, which can be dragged around the screen as needed. Of course, my first thought is "Lets ditch Windows 7 and try to get this running on Linux"
So. first of all, is there any Linux software which can handle
- playing a playlist of MIDI songs,
- displaying the lyrics on screen large enough to read from a couple of meters away.
- give rudimentary control over playback such as turning channels on and off.
I have found pykaraoke, but that doesn't really seem to do enough.
Secondly, the sound output of Windows MIDI is OK, but a bit tinny. I think the guy who set up windows for her might have installed a soundfont to beef it up a bit. The MIDI output on Linux seems considerably worse out of the box. Synths, guitars, basses are dire. So I have some questions about that:
- Is this a consequence of moving from Windows to Linux. ie. is there something in the MIDI files which means the files will necessarily play worse on Linux compared to Windows where they were edited with that specific set up in mind. (erm, I dunno, maybe the mapping got messed up, different soundfonts, who knows ...)
- What are the fixes I can use to improve the MIDI output. Quick fixes like better soundfonts, and more long term ones: where should I be aiming ... sampled instruments and a proper DAW? (But she'll still need to see the lyrics on screen, nice and large)
- If there is some fundamental difference in the platforms, which needs a change in the MIDI files, is there a tool which can be scripted (I can do scripting) to make the same change to all the 4000 MIDI files.
Well that should do for starters. Any pointers appreciated. There's a lot of stuff out there, but not much I can find about MIDI with Lyrics.
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I have a bunch of Midi files that could be great DooM music, however when the midi file has "lyrics" in it (which sound more like an electrical storm on a Playskool piano), it ruins the whole thing and then I don't want to use it.
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His latest video, Next-Level AI Music Editing with ACE Studio and Band-in-a-Box, he explains in detail how you can use the Melodist feature in Band-in-a-Box with ACE Studio. Follow along as he goes from "nothing" to "something" with his Band-in-a-Box MIDI Melodist track, using ACE Studio to turn it into a vocal track (or tracks, you'll see) by adding lyrics for those notes that will trigger some amazing AI vocals!
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This is not entirely true. There are ways to add lyrics to Midi Files, something which is done with files intended for karaoke. A number of DAWs can do this - Cubase, Sonar for instance). I've no idea if this is possible in "Music Studio". Perhaps more likely in Samplitude Music Studio.
However, MuseScore is the best karaoke machine there is, and it's free, so why not send them the MSCZ files and a link to download MuseScore? Even if they can't read music they can still follow along with the lyrics. They can control playback with the Play Panel and use the Mixer to mute other sections of the choir.
The ideal software, for our choir, would display the score with the lyrics, as well as allowing control of playback in the manner of vanBasco's MIDI player. I realise that MuseScore does just that, but getting a bunch of technophobes to install it isn't easy. I can give MSCZ files a try, but not many will use them, I'm afraid.
I came across a pretty annoying bug. I have a foot midi controller to step through variations and song parts. When the lyrics window is open (and if the lyrics are longer than what can be displayed) and I have scrolled down and switch to another song part with the midi controller, the lyrics window jumps up to the top of the page. Every time I step on the controller and am not at the top of the lyrics page, it will jump up to the top. Needless to say this is a nasty behavior in the middle of a gig.
You can save your song file as a MIDI File using the File|Export command. If lyrics are present in any non-muted staff, they will be exported along with the performance data. When saving to a Type 0 MIDI file, only one lyric is exported since all data is saved into a single performance track.
Earlier this week on Twitter, I came across quite the sonic phenomena. If you take an mp3 file, convert it to MIDI, then convert it back to mp3, it sounds totally nuts. Just give a couple of these songs a quick listen so you know what you're dealing with:
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I'd like to use javascript to extract from a midi file: lyrics + related time stamps.Of course, I'd like to have the time stamps as absolute time in seconds from the beginning of the song. As far as I understand, the native midi format provides times in the form of relative times (delta vs previous event in the list), measured in ticks (rather than seconds).So what I've found & achieved so far is the following:
I can use the midi-parser-js library to parse a midi file and retrieve the lyrics & delta times. -parser-jsI can somehow compute the absolute times in seconds when the tempo doesn't evolve, or when tempo changes are conveniently located. As soon as tempo changes occur between notes, I cannot seem to find the proper formula, which looks awfully complex, and the more I search, the further I get from the solution.
I think that the difficulty partly lies in that the tempo is located in a separate track, and as a result, delta times retrieved from the lyrics track do not take the tempo changes into account. So I thought that parsing a midi file in format 0 (rather that format 1) would help, since all events would be merged into the same track, but the tempo still seems to be on a separate "track 0", rather than in "track 1" with the lyrics events.
So I found another javascript library, Tone.js, that provides a midi parser: seems almost perfect, because it provides absolute times in seconds (and also note durations, which are not available as such in the native midi format).However, this library doesn't seem to expose the lyrics data! (or if it does, I couldn't find how).The user discussion / support forum for this library seems to be down.
It is assumed that there is a tempo map reader, which extracts a tempo map from the MIDI file. A tempo map is needed to synchronize the musical tick/beat based sequencer with other time bases, like the wall-clock seconds you're after. The MIDI file specification has a scenario with a SMPTE synchronizer machine, but we can treat the lyrics display as having a similar role, if it has to operate in a non-musical time base.
I couldn't find a tempo map reader feature in the midi-parser-js library, so I wrote a rudimentary tempo map add-on that can be kludged over the test-script-element.html example in the midi-parser-js examples folder. This tempo map works for type 1 MIDI files, at least the one I tried it with. It utilizes the objects parsed by midi-parser-js's MidiParser.parse() method. There's no error checking and we hope that everything is as assumed. To work with type 0 files, you may have to tweak the code.
You can either trigger individual images with the lyrics or well-timed videos showing the lyrics via midi. Depending on what you have in mind and how much effort you want to put into pre-production, this can look quite simple or very complex with animated text, graphic effects, fade in/out, etc.
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