I've got a couple of freeware programs that are almost perfect for an application but not quite. Here's what I want: A small midi recorder that will just record the midi from my keyboard. Also would like to view it in some way, and save it (or a portion) to a midi file. The idea is that during practice sometime I noodle into a great chord, harmony, whatever. I'd like to go back and revisit that part.

So I could just use BIAB or Sonar, etc. But the additional feature I want is that it will invoke "pause" a short time after I stop playing (say, 20 seconds), and restart recording when I next play a note. So it could be in "record mode" all day long, but the midi file would not have long blank passages, only my playing.

The program "midirec" purports to do this - but does not, in fact, auto-pause. It might work on an older
OS, but not my machine. I've tried contacting the author but to no avail. Another program, "MidiPiano" is much more refined, simple, many good features, but has no pause feature.

So - anyone know of a small, background program that will do what I want - record all day but pause when I'm not playing?

Thanks.

kelso

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