Convert MIDI to Orca

[Marin-Kitagawa]

I have a MIDI file and I want to convert this to Orca. How to achieve this?

[neauoire]

It depends how you wanna use the midi notes in your orca patch, but at its core, you can just extract the notes and put them down as series of midi notes, like this track by Aphex Twin as an example: https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/orca-toy/tree/main/item/demo.orca

[Marin-Kitagawa]

I mean, if you have seen Midica, there is a feature to convert MIDI files into .midicapl, .midica, .mpl, etc. Similarly, are there any tools to convert it into Orca instead of manual conversion?

[neauoire]

I don't know, I've never used Midica before, but you could suggest an orca notes output to Midica :) The best would be something that just converts a midi file to

3C
3E
3D
4B
...

[martinberlin]

I tried some time ago to make a JavaScript adaptation to do this, although quite imprecise, it's possible with some tweaking to make it better
http://orca.fasani.de/