Re: [pygame] Alternatives to portmidi

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marcus,

Marcus von Appen wrote:
> On, Tue Jan 27, 2009, Rene Dudfield wrote:
>
>   
> > hi,
> >
> > This is the most portable midi library.  It's also pretty small, and
> > still has active people working on it.
> >     
>
> I thought so.
>  
>   
> > Also, it's supposed to be optional for pygame.
> >     
>
> I know.
>  
>   
> > Platforms like freebsd don't support midi very well at all as far as I
> > could see.  So it's a case of supporting it on platforms that support
> > midi, and other platforms can come later -- if they support midi at
> > all.
> >     
>
> That's right - and thus I'm wondering, whether the are alternatives to
> portmidi that support other platforms as well. Though my search was
> pretty unsuccessful so far.
>
> Regards
> Marcus
>   
RtMidi has Irix support as well. It has a callback mechanism for input, 
useful for mapping midi messages into Pygame events. Unfortunately 
RtMidi is written in full blown C++, including exceptions. So there is 
no way to provide it as a dependency in Windows. It would have to be 
included as source in Pygame/pgreloaded.

http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/

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Lenard Lindstrom
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