A MIDI question

[unixronin]

No, I'm not asking for help interrogating midiamin.  I'm hoping someone can point me at a decent MIDI editor with which, given a complete song rendered in MIDI, I can extract the most usable portion as a ring for a phone that, in practical terms, can use only MIDI ringtones due to memory constraints.  What I need is something akin to Audacity, but which works with MIDI.

 

Any suggestions?

 

(Oh, I do have to comment that there are some really good MIDI transfers out there ... but then again there are some really awful ones that sound like Led Zeppelin played on the electronic organ that your Great-Aunt Matilda plays for the church socials, by Great-Aunt Matilda, or like Aerosmith played on a tuba.)

Comments

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

Not a *NIX solution, but I found the Nokia suite allowed me to do this very well - I extracted a portion of Funkytown for my cellphone.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I suspect there may not be an easy solution.
Of course, partcilarly since my recent cross-country drive, I'm becoming increasingly disenchanted with Nextel (I hadn't previously realized how truly awful their coverage outside of major metropolitan areas is), so maybe I'll just put off anything like this until our current contract expires and then switch phones and carrier.

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

On cellphones, I didn't realize just how bad and obsolete the US CDMA systems were until I moved to North America, and didn't have the power of GSM available to me. It was an incredibly shock to go from a very small phone with a 2 week battery to a clunky phone with 3 days of battery, barely passable reception and hardly any non-voice services.

I was very glad when GSM became available in my area here, and that a company I was doing work for was willing to partially pay for my cellphone contract to move to the new GSM network (half my monthly bill is nothing to sneeze at). Sure, my coverage isn't great if I travel too far within North America at the moment (since GSM networks aren't there in many areas), but my cellphone works perfectly in the rest of the world, and that is a huge plus.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I'm with you all the way here. The US cellphone network is an appalling crock. Antiquated hardware supplying inferior services via an obsolete carrier standard, and even on that "standard" all the competing vendors have their own proprietary versions, and nothing quite works with anything else even when they supposedly have cross-service agreements. And now we're trying to unload all teh ancient crap that even our carriers consider obsolete on Iraq. Iraq gets a shitty phone system out of it that they'll probably have to scrap as soon as we're out and start over, and US telcos get a huge write-off ....

When I moved to Milpitas in late 1999 I got a GSM phone from AT&T. For about three months. The service was appallingly bad, and AT&T lied to me for three months to avoid admitting that they knew their GSM service wouldn't work properly with the phone they'd sold me. Even when given an internationally established standard to work with that everyone else in the world has Just Working Everywhere, they couldn't get it right.

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Then you've got Nextel which has it's own standard (iDEN). It will be interesting to see what comes out of the ashes of the merger...

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

Hmm, FruityLoops is what I usually use for MIDI editing, though just about ay major audio software suite can do it. If you want to email me the MIDI file, and indicate the section you want, I can send it back to you pretty quickly. myljname+boy@gmail.com.