PortMidi is another open source cross-platform MIDI I/O library worth checking out. On the other hand, if you are working on a sysex type of app, then direct Win32 works easily enough. Just came across another open source cross-platform framework that includes MIDI support: Juce. Also, I should note that there isn’t anything special about … Read more
The pygame module can be used to play midi files. http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/music.html See the example here: http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/code/216979 a whole bunch of options available at: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic and also here which you can modify to suit your purpose: http://xenon.stanford.edu/~geksiong/code/playmus/playmus.py
Android: Loading Custom Midi Instruments DLS files into Sonivox EAS
I’ve never looked deeply into the MIDI support in Java, and the last time I played seriously with MIDI programming was when Commodore Amiga was king. It looks like you may have to do quite a bit of manual work. Here’s a crude example that interprets all NOTE_ON and NOTE_OFF events, for the rest of … Read more
I use FL studios with my Midi and odds are is you need to turn down your buffer quality so that there is little to no delay. It’s probably by default set to about mid-high range which means you will almost for sure have 1 – 1.5 second delay Don’t turn it down too low … Read more
I haven’t done any MIDI programming in years, but your fundamental idea is very sound (no pun). MIDI is a stream of “events” (or “messages”), two of the most fundamental being “note on” and “note off” which carry with them the note number (0 = C five octaves below middle C, through 127 = G … Read more