Midi Master Preview

A tool for mastering MIDI files.

It allows you to play Midi files using the Playdate's synthesizer instruments, plus 3 sampled instruments: 2 drum kits and a Choir.

It is not possible to create or edit the notes in the songs, it's about changing the instruments and how they are tuned.

It can be used on physical Playdates as well as the Playdate Simulator. Masters are saved in the Data folder. This folder is created when you first save a master. On the Mac simulator, the location of that folder is ~/Developer/PlaydateSDK/Disk/Data/com.ninovanhooff.midimaster

A note on the Preview release

I never officially released this tool because it has a problem which causes it to crash if you use it for a long period of time without restarting. It seems this problem is not in Midi-Master's code, but rather in the way Midi was implemented by Panic (the company behind the Playdate). Since there is no way of knowing when they will fix the problem, I just decided to release the tool as it is, without any guarantees. Hopefully it is useful or fun to someone :-)

Differences between Simulator and hardware playback

There may be differences in playback between Simulator and hardware devices, this also includes cases where songs sound better on hardware. Testing on hardware is always recommended.

Add your own songs

Free Midi files can be found on sites such as https://bitmidi.com/, https://freemidi.org/ and https://www.midiworld.com/ 

Using the MIDI Master pdx

Open the pdx folder (Mac: right-click the pdx and select "Show package contents"). Add your songs to the "songs" folder inside the pdx.

When compiling MIDI Master from source (developers)

See https://github.com/ninovanhooff/MIDI-Master