Re: [Rosegarden-user] midi file weirdness to my korg oasys

[D. M. M. <ros...@gm...>]

On Wednesday 12 November 2008, robert lazarski wrote:
> change! Perhaps this is standard fare with some midi files, but I've

Some MIDI files have program changes in the middle somewhere.  This is common 
and normal.

This file has 19 of them at various times.  That's probably the reason for the 
problem you perceive.

> never seen it before. Would I have to edit the midi file to prevent
> these changes mid-song?

You'd have to edit the .rg file.  If you really want to do this, it's easy to 
do the same way I just counted the number of program changes in the file.

1) import the .mid file
2) save the imported result as an .rg file
3) gunzip -c exported_result-file.rg | grep programchange

Let's see...  You'd want to grep everything that isn't a program change, and 
direct the result to some other file.

This worked:

gunzip -c OZRIC8.rg |grep -v programchange > foo.rg

Now foo.rg is the same as the original file, with all the program change 
events stripped out.

You could also do the same thing from the event list editor if you'd rather 
not visit the evil command line.  The command line is just vastly faster in 
this case.

> Can I configure RG to lock the instruments?

No.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre