editing a midi

[aussie]

I just want to cut the first 3 or 4 seconds out of a midi file. What should I do? Is there any good, free program to do it?

[Timosity]

This is a cool free program that you can do exactly that

http://www.anvilstudio.com/

Anvil studio

to cut up a midi using it, you choose a point in the midi and can truncate from that point to the end, or that point to the beginning.

That's the only way I could figure out how to use the program for that

[Flippy_D @school]

I'd recommend cakewalk, but then again, I always do. You can probably download version 3.0 or something (circa 1992) from somewhere on the net, it'll allow you to mercilessly edit your MIDI. No problem.

[aussie]

Thanks both. Anvil studio certainly works for me. I'll have a look at the other one now.

[TheYak]

One comment I have is that with corrupted midi files, cakewalk seems to do a bit better.  It will attempt to fix it most of the time and allow you to load it regardless.  Anvil Studio has an upper hand by being free, but I tried to edit a midi that played fine only to have no accessibility in Anvil Studio with it.