RE: Percussion and delta-time?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean M. Burke [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 19 May 2001 02:04
> To: Lee Goddard; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Percussion and delta-time?
> 
> 
> At 10:58 AM 2001-05-18 +0100, Lee Goddard wrote:
> >[...]
> >1. how can I get percussion?  Changing the channel to ten 
> doesn't seem to do
> >the trick: is this my lack of MIDI or lack of Perl MIDI::*?
> 
> It's track 9.  "9" is pronounced "tenth".
> Cf. the fact that $foo[3] is item 3, i.e., the "fourth".
> 
> Many descriptions of MIDI go and number from 1 (so, they call channel 0
> "channel 1", and so on up) because it's too "confusing" to number from 0.
> But the file specification and the raw protocol both start at 0 (for note
> numbers as well as channels), so that's what I do.
> 
> See, for example, code in
> http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/~sburke/midi-perl/tpj_13_midi.html
> like:
>  noop c9, ff, n41, qn;  # The setup...
>  n; r; n; r;            # ...and the work.
> 
> See also the examples in
> http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/~sburke/midi-perl/scripts/
> 

Many thanks.