MIDIPlayer X 4+

Fast and easy MIDI file player

MethodRed Technology LLC

    • 4.3 • 32 Ratings
    • $1.99

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Description

The fastest, easiest way to play MIDI files on your Mac.

MIDIPlayer X will play any MIDI file to your choice of available MIDI outputs, either hardware or software, or to its own built-in GM-compatible virtual synth. Fast and elegantly simple to use via drag and drop – whether you need to check a single .mid file or audition hundreds, there's no faster easier method than MIDIPlayer X.

Playback Controls
MIDIPlayer X let’s you rewind and fast forward through your MIDI file. You can step through measure by measure or quickly jump to any location in the file with a simple mouse click. The counter provides a precise reference point, either bar : beat or min : sec, for location within your song.

AutoPlay
Flexible AutoPlay modes let you control if a file begins playback immediately when it is selected or waits for you to press play; repeats the selected file continuously; or automatically moves to the next file when the current file ends.

Editing Features
With MIDIPlayer X, you can change the playback tempo, plus mute or solo individuals channels within a MIDI file. After making any changes, you can save a new MIDI file with your edits. The next time you load your new file into MIDIPlayer X, your desired tempo and track mutes will load as you saved them.

Speed and Convenience Features
MIDIPlayer X accepts multiple files and folders via drag and drop, along with intuitive key commands to let you move efficiently through many files. Show in Finder let’s you quickly reference where you loaded any file from.

Key Standard Features
• Plays any Standard MIDI File
• Works with your MIDI hardware and software
• Built-in GM-compatible synth
• Simple drag and drop operation

Key Controls
• Rewind, fast forward, and jump to any timeline location
• Mute and Solo channels
• Tempo control
• Flexible counter for precise time references
• Load multiple files and folders via drag and drop
• Save customized MIDI files

Made for your Mac
MIDIPlayer X works with virtually all commercial MIDI hardware and software. It will auto-locate all available MIDI outputs, both hardware and virtual, so you can select your desired sound source. Easily switch playback between an external keyboard or sound module, or to other software instruments and apps inside your Mac.

MIDIPlayer X includes its own software synth using Apple's CoreAudio technology. So even if you have no other MIDI hardware or software available on your Mac, you’ll always have a 16-part multitimbral, GM-compatible synth available.

Drag and Drop Simplicity
Simpy drag a file, a few files, a folder, or even multiple folders, from the Finder and drop them on to MIDIPlayer X. MIDIPlayer X will remember your last MIDI destination, and can automatically start playback eliminating extra clicks or keystrokes. MIDIPlayer X is especially handy since the Mac no longer plays MIDI files from the Finder.

MIDIPlayer X will display file information, such as title, tempo, time signature, as well as active MIDI channels and System Exclusive data.

What’s New

Version 2.3

- added support for playing MIDI cues from MiX16 PRO

Ratings and Reviews

4.3 out of 5
32 Ratings

32 Ratings

now_its_dark ,

Nice, basic MIDI player! List view & m3u support would be helpful.

There isn't much to say, regarding the basic funtionality- it is clean and functions as described, as in, it plays MIDI files, so no complaints in that regard. 😄

The UI is intentionally simple and straighforward, but perhaps to a fault, in one particular way—Though you can drag-and-drop a folder, or multiple files, and they will play sequentially, there is no way to see which song/file is currently playing, how many files are enqueued, or view and adjust the order in which they play, short of manually renaming all files in a folder to a sequential numbering scheme.

While I love the simplicity of this application, it would be extremely helpful, while working with collections of MIDI files, if a list view would appear below the transport controls, when multiple files are loaded. Ideally a playlist file could also be loaded and saved from this view (just a text file, containing an ordered list of files, with or without an absolute path).

Borizio ,

Tempo Doesn't Work

Tempo can only be changed by arrow (why not by data input?), and it doesn't actually affect the playback at all (in Catalina here), so tempo is always at 120bpm no matter what. Otherwise a very useful app, but two stars deducted until this is fixed.
Added one star back as manufacturer responded quickly and constructively... will give 5 stars as soon as we figure out how to get tempo to work here.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your purchase of MIDIPlayer X, and your time to write a review. Increasing and decreasing tempo works as specified in macOS 10.15.7, so sorry to hear you are having trouble with tempo. Please contact us at support@methodred.net so we may get some additional details as to what may be going wrong, and get tempo changes working for you, as well.

Jim Corbin ,

Huge time-saver

I have a 32-year-old Roland U-20 keyboard, and after I had the internal battery changed, the keyboard lost all of its default patch data (the display showed nonsense characters, and wouldn't play any internal instruments). The Roland company sent me a .MID file and instructions on how to set the U-20 to receive the default patches. I simply added a Roland U-20 device to MIDI Studio on the Mac, and connected the MIDI In and Out ports to an internal Mac MIDI device. MIDIPlayer X was extremely simple to use: I turned off Auto-Play and sent the data to the U-20. Problem solved, without spending weeks trying to figure out one of those complicated software sequencers.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.