visual c libraries: H

Im looking to create a C++ program that will take a MIDI file as its input and analyse the data that it contains, extract the necessary information and create a Guitar tablature file

Where Im stuck at the moment is finding a library file that has the functionality to do the necessary MIDI analysis. Anyone know of any freeware/shareware ones available for this kind of task

Alan

Unfortunately, I've done quite a bit of digging, and I can't quite find a Microsoft API that will help you very much. DirectMusic will almost work, but I can't seem to get individual notes using it. One resource that you might check is Harmony Central's MIDI dev tool page. I can't provide you with any support or make any promises about that, of course, but I think you'll find what you need there (www.harmony-central.com/MIDI). You might want to try one of the directx programming newsgroups to see if there is anyone there who can help you out more. Also, if you check out midi.org, you can get the specs to parse the file yourself if you can't use directmusic, and don't want to use a third-party lib

Good luck

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