Re: [pygame] pygame.midi

[René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

it uses portmidi, so best to look at that for capabilities.  Also to
ask on that mailing list for advanced usage.

1(not sure of capability detection), 3 ,4 I know of to be true.  Not
sure of 2, or 5.

You can download either the source, and build that.  Or you can
download prebuilt win/mac versions.  You should be able to take just
the pypm.pyd or pypm.so, and the midi.py... the midi.py might have
some dependencies on other parts of pygame.  Consider the pypm
private, and an implementation detail... it might dissapear to be
replaced by a different one later.

There's an examples/midi.py with example listing, input and output.
The documentation hasn't quite been finished yet, but is mostly done
as docstrings in lib/midi.py

It's still unfinished, so maybe it will have a few issues and the API
may change slightly, but expected to stabalise after the pygame 1.9
release due in approximately 6 weeks.

Any bug reports, and patches welcome!


cu,


On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Peter Gebauer
<peter.gebauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I recently wrote an application for configuration of Akai's USB EWI
> and I used PyAlsa's (Python extension of Alsa) sequencer API.
> After tracking down and fixing at least three bugs (most of which
> concerning segfaults tediously tracked down in gdb) and mailing
> back and forth the maintainer I realized it would take a lot of
> time and energy since I have no easy access to apply patches.
> I also realized porting would be an issue. Enter pygame.
>
> So, enough background, here are some questions: I'm sending
> NRPN's and Sysex's, does the following functionality work
> in pygame.midi?
>
> 1) List connected MIDI devices (if possible with capabilities)
> 2) Connect duplex (read/write)
> 3) Send events
> 4) Read events
> 5) List active port connections
> 6) What other dependencies will be added to Linux, OSX and Windows
>
> Is it possible to download just the midi module somewhere and build
> it to work with my current version of pygame (1.8.1-3)?
>
> Anybody else interrested in EWI's who might want to add support for
> their device, maybe we can work it in with my Akai project.
>
> /Peter
>