MIDI MIPS Player and Synthesizer

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Compiling and Running

To compile the file run make clean && make which will create a file called mmps.s. Open this file in Mars, assembly it and then click run. You will most likely need expand the console area in Mars in order to see everything and interact with the program properly.

The preprocessor requires python and make to be installed. As you may not have this installed we have also included a precompiled version in the mmps_final.s file.

Example files

The submission includes two files for example called: pokecenter.mid and pallet_town.mid. To use these files call load pokecenter.mid and load pallet_town.mid.

Note: that if mars is not started from the same directory as these files then you must supply an absolute or relative path to the files in order for mars to find them.

Console commands

• play - plays music added or loaded thus far
• play n v d i - plays a single note n, with velocity v, for duration n on instrument i
• add n v d i - adds a note n, with velocity v, and duration d, to the working track using instrument i
• add d - adds a rest for the specified duration
• cat - display a listing of notes in the track thus far
• load f - load a previously saved MIDI file from file location f.
• save f - save the working track to file location f
• help - display commands available

Durations are a number of 16th notes. Quarter notes are 480ms each.

Instruments:

• 0: Piano
• 1: Chromatic Percussion
• 2: Organ
• 3: Guitar
• 4: Bass
• 5: Strings
• 6: Ensemble
• 7: Brass
• 8: Reed
• 9: Pipe
• 10: Synth Lead
• 11: Synth Pad
• 12: Synth Effect
• 13: Ethnic
• 14: Percussion
• 15: Sound Effect

Velocity

Valid velocities are:

• pp pianissimo
• p piano
• mp mezzopiano
• mf mezzoforte
• f forte
• ff fortissimo

Midi stored internally as 8 byte sequences:

tt tt tt tt ci nn vv vv

• t - Time delta (in ticks, variable-length quantity[7-bit])
• c - MIDI Command (9 for on, 8 for off)
• i - Instrument (channel, in reality, 0-15)
• n - Note (0-127)
• v - Velocity (0x80vv, last byte contains usable velocity)