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JEFFD.MID - Midi Dump List
By Robbie Rhodes

Will Dahlgren reported to me that his Midi program, Cakewalk Pro version 4.0e 11/27/91, displayed no lyrics, and that his auxillary program, MF2ASC, which converts Midi file to Cakewalk-ascii, also didn't list any lyrics. It seems Cakewalk just throws them away!

Here is a truncated listing of the file contents. If you have a utility for viewing binary data files, such as TreeView, you can see all the lyric text, preceded by FF 05 nn, where nn is the length of the string.

Explanation of columns:

   -A- elapsed time in seconds; the Coda starts at 209 secs
   -B- ticks; each quarter note has 240 ticks (TixPerQtr=240)
   -C- measure [1..?]: beat [1,2,3,4]: remainder [0..239]
   -D- note event: Channel, note, velocity
       meta event: meta flag, meta type, byte count for text

1995.08.14  1923:37  ListM 6/94
Opening Infile JEFFD.MID [Midi][MTPC] 38878 bytes
ChunkType=MThd, ChunkLength=6, MidiType=1, NumberOfTracks=3, TixPerQtr=240
Processing #0 MTrk, 536

   -A-      -B-     -C-    ---D---   -E-

   0.000      0   1:1:000  FF 58 04  4/4 Time, 24 tix/beat, 8 32nds/24tix
   0.000      0   1:1:000  FF 51 03  rMM 240.0  250000 usec/qtr_note
   0.000      0   1:1:000  FF 54 05  SMPTE Offset:  64  0  0  0  0
   0.001      1   1:1:001  FF 05 15  Lyric: "The Jefferson Davis"
   1.000    960   2:1:000  FF 05 16  Lyric: music by Pete Wendling
   2.000   1920   3:1:000  FF 05 1A  Lyric: lyrics by Walter Donaldson
   3.000   2880   4:1:000  FF 05 14  Lyric: QRS 2939  (Dec 1924)
   4.000   3840   5:1:000  FF 05 17  Lyric: played by Pete Wendling
   5.000   4800   6:1:000  FF 05 19  Lyric: Midi arrangement (C) 1994
   6.000   5760   7:1:000  FF 05 19  Lyric: by BluesTone Music Rolls
   7.000   6720   8:1:000  FF 05 12  Lyric: 485 Gatewood Lane
   8.000   7680   9:1:000  FF 05 17  Lyric: Grayslake IL 60030 USA
   9.000   8640  10:1:000  FF 05 1B  Lyric: This file may be downloaded
  10.000   9600  11:1:000  FF 05 19  Lyric: to be played on your Midi
  11.000  10560  12:1:000  FF 05 18  Lyric: system only.  It may not
  12.000  11520  13:1:000  FF 05 1A  Lyric: be re-distributed in this
  13.000  12480  14:1:000  FF 05 18  Lyric: form or any other form..
  16.500  15840  17:3:000  FF 05 08  Lyric: ÑVerse1Ñ
  48.250  46320  49:2:000  FF 05 0C  Lyric: - Chorus 1 -
  80.250  77040  81:2:000  FF 05 0C  Lyric: - Chorus 2 -
 112.500 108000 113:3:000  FF 05 0B  Lyric: - Verse 2 -
 144.250 138480 145:2:000  FF 05 0A  Lyric: -Chorus 3-
 176.250 169200 177:2:000  FF 05 0A  Lyric: -Chorus 4-
 209.000 200640 210:1:000  FF 05 06  Lyric: -Coda-
 209.000 200640 210:1:000  FF 2F 00  End of Track
 End of Track #0

Processing #1 MTrk, 1936
   0.000      0   1:1:000  FF 03 0A  Track Name: vocal lead
  34.000  16320  18:1:000  91 59 5D  Ch.2 Note On  89F5   93
  17.219  16530  18:1:210  81 59 40  Ch.2 Note Off 89F5
  17.250  16560  18:2:000  91 5C 66  Ch.2 Note On  92G#5 102
  17.719  17010  18:3:210  81 5C 40  Ch.2 Note Off 92G#5
  17.750  17040  18:4:000  91 5C 6D  Ch.2 Note On  92G#5 109
  18.719  17970  19:3:210  81 5C 40  Ch.2 Note Off 92G#5
  18.750  18000  19:4:000  91 5C 67  Ch.2 Note On  92G#5 103
  18.969  18210  19:4:210  81 5C 40  Ch.2 Note Off 92G#5
(search for end of track)
 142.999 137279 143:4:239  FF 2F 00  End of Track
 End of Track #1

Processing #2 MTrk, 36368
   0.000      0   1:1:000  FF 03 05  Track Name: piano
   1.000    480   1:3:000  90 32 4D  Ch.1 Note On  50D2   77
   0.500    480   1:3:000  90 3B 4D  Ch.1 Note On  59B2   77
   0.500    480   1:3:000  90 41 4D  Ch.1 Note On  65F3   77
   0.500    480   1:3:000  90 50 4D  Ch.1 Note On  80G#4  77
   0.500    480   1:3:000  90 53 4D  Ch.1 Note On  83B4   77
   0.500    480   1:3:000  90 59 4D  Ch.1 Note On  89F5   77
   0.500    480   1:3:000  90 5C 4D  Ch.1 Note On  92G#5  77
   0.950    912   1:4:192  80 50 40  Ch.1 Note Off 80G#4
   0.982    943   1:4:223  80 5C 40  Ch.1 Note Off 92G#5
   0.982    943   1:4:223  80 59 40  Ch.1 Note Off 89F5
   0.982    943   1:4:223  80 53 40  Ch.1 Note Off 83B4
   0.982    943   1:4:223  80 41 40  Ch.1 Note Off 65F3
   0.982    943   1:4:223  80 3B 40  Ch.1 Note Off 59B2
   0.982    943   1:4:223  80 32 40  Ch.1 Note Off 50D2
(search for end of track)

 222.958 214040 223:4:200  FF 2F 00  End of Track
 End of Track #2

End of file.

Now I'm *really* curious: what programs besides MasterTracks *will* display lyrics? And synchronized with the chords, just like on a piano roll?? Please let us know.

-- Robbie Rhodes 14 August 1995

(Message sent Tue 15 Aug 1995, 02:48:36 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject: Dump, JEFFD.MID, List, Midi

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