25 Feb
2006
25 Feb
'06
8:42 p.m.
Hi,
I've had the pleasure and misfortune to test both of the widely known
portable MIDI libraries, and now believe I have found one that works to
my satisfaction.
This is not a quantifiable review with benchmarking but the subjective
experience of someone who has implemented a very simple yet nonetheless
professionally implemented, low-latency, jitter-free and real time
application.
The two candidates are
portmidi (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/portmusic/)
and
RtMidi (http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/)
Well, I guess the midishare guys should promote more...
http://midishare.sourceforge.net/
26 Feb
26 Feb
5:50 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Portable C++ MIDI libraries review
:) I only wrote the article because I wanted to write an article and had
implemented both... I switched to RtMidi mainly because it has a Thread
class that's likely to be tuned at audio apps.
Oh so MidiShare is NOT an entire operating system geared at shoving
around MIDI notes? I kind of thought that was awfully specialized.
Carlo
3:49 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Portable C++ MIDI libraries review
Carlo Capocasa wrote:
Oh so MidiShare is NOT an entire operating system
geared at shoving
around MIDI notes? I kind of thought that was awfully specialized.
No, it's a library for processing MIDI which offers some very nice and
unique features, such as a kind of (cross-application) virtual loopbacks
built into the design of the library. It is true that it is not as
straightforward to build and install (at least on Linux) since its
internals are implemented as a kernel module. But it has very accurate
timing and provides a well thought-out abstraction layer. It's been
ported to a lot of platforms. It's also very mature and well-documented.
It's definitely worth taking a look at.
--
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email: Dr.Graef(a)t-online.de, ag(a)muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de
WWW: http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag
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