This was something I put together to see if pygame and PyPortMidi would
get along. They do. It is very simple. You can use the keyboard or the
mouse to play a four note pipe organ.
Lenard
machinimist@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> thanks!
>
> and does anyone know if there are examples somewhere? like a simple
> program which allows you to play a midi instrument (best using the
> integrated synthesizer on the sound card) with the computer keyboard?
>
>
> On 1/1/08, *Lenard Lindstrom* < len-l@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:len-l@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> Try http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~harrison/code.html
> <http://alumni.media.mit.edu/%7Eharrison/code.html>
>
> Lenard
>
> machinimist@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:machinimist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > thanks!
> > http://sound.media.mit.edu/~harrison/pyportmidi/
> <http://sound.media.mit.edu/%7Eharrison/pyportmidi/>
> > < http://sound.media.mit.edu/%7Eharrison/pyportmidi/>
> > it sounds like it is what i need but unfortunately it doesn't
> seem to
> > be available anymore...
> >
> > On 1/1/08, *Lenard Lindstrom* <len-l@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:len-l@xxxxxxxxx>
> > <mailto: len-l@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:len-l@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
> >
> > machinimist@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: machinimist@xxxxxxxxx>
> <mailto:machinimist@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:machinimist@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > i have a midi song (not polyphonic) and want to play back
> one note
> > > after another triggered by key presses. what would be the best
> > way to
> > > do this? i guess i can't directly do this with pygame but
> i need
> > some
> > > midi library? does anyone know which one would be suited
> for that
> > > (ideally it should work in linux and windows)? has anyone
> tried to
> > > do something similar?
> > Check out the Python music page:
> >
> > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic
> > <http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic >
> >
> > Of the various midi packages PyPortMidi is still available.
> >
>
>