[LAD] help on creating MIDI from linux input events

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Sun Jul 5 20:28:47 UTC 2009


Renato Budinich wrote:
>> It might be an overkill, but something like this is very easily done with 
>> SuperCollider (or Chuck or Pd for that matter).
>>     
> hey, i have just started using sc! I'll ask on the sc list for some
> code. Thank you!
>
> In the meanwhile i found pyrtmidi - python bindings for rtmidi, which i
> could use in a gizmod script; i already was able to type letters with
> the buttons of my device using gizmod, but till now i didn't know of a
> way of outputting midi from python. Btw i don't know python either but
> it seems to me i could easily learn - at least easier than a C alsa or
> jack api.

If you need real-time, keep in mind, that e.g. a MIDI-USB-device with 
top priority by Rui's rtirq has got more jitter, than e.g. an MPU-401 
device and I guess an USB keyboard device will be much more worse :S.



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