I'm using the Mido library to read a simple MIDI file in python.
My MIDI file is the following: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t80kg9l2k525g0h/file.mid?dl=0
It's just a dummy MIDI file I created with basic notes.
I opened it with the Mido library and printed its content:
from mido import MidiFile
mid = MidiFile('file.mid')
for i, track in enumerate(mid.tracks):
print('Track {}: {}'.format(i, track.name))
for msg in track:
print(msg)
This is what i get:
Track 0:
<meta message track_name name='\x00' time=0>
<meta message time_signature numerator=4 denominator=4 clocks_per_click=36 notated_32nd_notes_per_beat=8 time=0>
<meta message time_signature numerator=4 denominator=4 clocks_per_click=36 notated_32nd_notes_per_beat=8 time=0>
note_on channel=0 note=60 velocity=100 time=0
note_on channel=0 note=64 velocity=100 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=60 velocity=64 time=384
note_on channel=0 note=62 velocity=100 time=0
note_on channel=0 note=67 velocity=100 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=62 velocity=64 time=384
note_off channel=0 note=64 velocity=64 time=0
note_on channel=0 note=64 velocity=100 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=67 velocity=64 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=64 velocity=64 time=384
note_on channel=0 note=67 velocity=100 time=0
note_on channel=0 note=66 velocity=100 time=384
note_off channel=0 note=67 velocity=64 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=66 velocity=64 time=384
note_on channel=0 note=67 velocity=100 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=67 velocity=64 time=384
note_on channel=0 note=69 velocity=100 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=69 velocity=64 time=384
note_on channel=0 note=71 velocity=100 time=0
note_on channel=0 note=60 velocity=100 time=384
note_off channel=0 note=71 velocity=64 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=60 velocity=64 time=384
note_on channel=0 note=62 velocity=100 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=62 velocity=64 time=384
note_on channel=0 note=64 velocity=100 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=64 velocity=64 time=375
note_on channel=0 note=67 velocity=100 time=9
note_on channel=0 note=66 velocity=100 time=384
note_off channel=0 note=67 velocity=64 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=66 velocity=64 time=384
note_on channel=0 note=67 velocity=100 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=67 velocity=64 time=384
note_on channel=0 note=69 velocity=100 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=69 velocity=64 time=384
note_on channel=0 note=71 velocity=100 time=0
note_off channel=0 note=71 velocity=64 time=384
<meta message end_of_track time=0>
Doing some experiment i kind of understood that the time is expressed in ticks relative to the previous event (note_on - note_off).
How can i re-order the notes using an absolute time reference (in ticks)?
I would like to have an absolute timeline of my notes, but i can't figure out how to "extract" it from the data i have.
Are there any other libraries that already implement this function? I saw this library: Python-midi, but unfortunately it's only available for Python 2.
The delta time is not relative to the corresponding note-on event, but relative to the previous event in the same track.
Just add up all the delta times, in order.