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## midion

midion — Generates MIDI note messages at k-rate.

## Description

Generates MIDI note messages at k-rate.

## Syntax

    midion kchn, knum, kvel

## Performance

kchn -- MIDI channel number (1-16)

knum -- note number (0-127)

kvel -- velocity (0-127)

midion (k-rate note on) plays MIDI notes with current kchn, knum and kvel. These arguments can be varied at k-rate. Each time the MIDI converted value of any of these arguments changes, last MIDI note played by current instance of midion is immediately turned off and a new note with the new argument values is activated. This opcode, as well as moscil, can generate very complex melodic textures if controlled by complex k-rate signals.

Any number of midion opcodes can appear in the same Csound instrument, allowing a counterpoint-style polyphony within a single instrument.

## Examples

Here is a simple example of the midion opcode. It uses the file midion_simple.csd.

Example 502. Simple Example of the midion opcode.

See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags.

This example generates a minor chord over every note received on the MIDI input. It generates MIDI notes on csound's MIDI output, so be sure to connect something.

    <CsoundSynthesizer>
    <CsOptions>

    ; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
    ; Audio out   Audio in    No messages
    -odac           -iadc     -d         -M0  -Q1 ;;;RT audio I/O with MIDI in
    </CsOptions>
    <CsInstruments>

    sr = 44100
    kr = 4410
    ksmps = 10
    nchnls = 2

    ; Example by Giorgio Zucco 2007

    instr 1 ;Triggered by MIDI notes on channel 1

      ifund notnum
      ivel  veloc

      knote1 init ifund
      knote2 init ifund + 3
      knote3 init ifund + 5

      ;minor chord on MIDI out channel 1
      ;Needs something plugged to csound's MIDI output
      midion 1, knote1,ivel
      midion 1, knote2,ivel
      midion 1, knote3,ivel

    endin

    </CsInstruments>
    <CsScore>
    ; Dummy ftable
    f0 60
    </CsScore>
    </CsoundSynthesizer>

Here is another example of the midion opcode. It uses the file midion_scale.csd.

Example 503. Example of the midion opcode to generate random notes from a scale.

See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags.

This example generates random notes from a given scale for every note received on the MIDI input. It generates MIDI notes on csound's MIDI output, so be sure to connect something.

    <CsoundSynthesizer>
    <CsOptions>

    ; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
    ; Audio out   Audio in    No messages
    -odac           -iadc     -d        -M0  -Q1 ;;;RT audio I/O with MIDI in
    </CsOptions>
    <CsInstruments>

    sr = 44100
    kr = 4410
    ksmps = 10
    nchnls = 2

    ; Example by Giorgio Zucco 2007

    instr 1 ; Triggered by MIDI notes on channel 1

      ivel 	veloc

      krate = 8
      iscale = 100 ;f

      ; Random sequence from table f100
      krnd  randh int(14),krate,-1
      knote table abs(krnd),iscale
      ; Generates random notes from the scale on ftable 100
      ; on channel 1 of csound's MIDI output
      midion 1,knote,ivel

    endin

    </CsInstruments>
    <CsScore>
    f100 0 32 -2  40 50 60 70 80 44 54 65 74 84 39 49 69 69

    ; Dummy ftable
    f0 60
    </CsScore>
    </CsoundSynthesizer>

## See Also

moscil, midion2, noteon, noteoff, noteondur, noteondur2

## Credits

Author: Gabriel Maldonado
Italy
May 1997

Thanks goes to Rasmus Ekman for pointing out the correct MIDI channel and controller number ranges.

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