MIDIPlayer X 4+

Fast and easy MIDI file player

MethodRed Technology LLC

    • 4.3 • 33 Ratings
    • $2.99

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Description

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

MIDIPlayer X will play any Standard 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.

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

Transport Controls
MIDIPlayer X let’s you play, 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. Easily Loop files for continuous repeat.

AutoPlay
Flexible AutoPlay lets playback begin immediately when a file is loaded or selected. Enable AutoAdvance to automatically play the next file when the current file ends.

Shuffle
Randomize your playback order when mulitple files are loaded.

Editing Features
Change tempos, mute or solo individuals channels, and rechannelize as needed. After making 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, track mutes, and new channel assignments will load as you saved them.

Drag and Drop Simplicity
Simply drag a file, a few files, a folder, or even multiple folders, from the Finder and drop them on to MIDIPlayer X. Drag the current file out into your DAW or a new Finder location.

Counter
The counter provides a precise location, displaying your choice of bar : beat or min : sec.

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.

Built-in GM Synth
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 featuring 226 tones, 9 drum kits, and reverb.

Key Controls
• Rewind, fast forward, and jump to any timeline location
• Mute and Solo channels
• Rechannelize
• Tempo up, down, and lock
• Loop on/off
• Counter format
• MIDI output selection
• Save customized MIDI files

Speed and Convenience Features
• Intuitive key commands let you move efficiently through many files
• Show in Finder let’s you quickly reference where you loaded any file from
• Toggle between a file's title and filename when needed

Display
• Title or filename
• Current and number of files loaded (if more than one)
• MIDI channels used in the current file
• SysEx indicator
• Time signature
• Counter bar : beat or min : sec
• Tempo
• Lock Tempo
• Selected MIDI output
• Shuffle
• Loop
• AutoPlay / Advance

What’s New

Version 3.1

New Feature
• Transpose
- shift the current file up or down by half-steps with a quick key tap or menu selection
- channel 10, commonly used for drums, is not transposed

Fixes and Improvements
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash after repetitive starts / stops. Such starts / stops may have been auto-triggered when using AutoAdvance.
• Fixed a bug that caused AutoAdvance to sometimes skip files.
• Improved handling of MIDISetup changes to not interrupt playback on the selected destination.

Ratings and Reviews

4.3 out of 5
33 Ratings

33 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.