[pygame] Re: Getting midi events for midi files playing in pygame

[Ivan DelSol <sunspider@xxxxxxxxx>]

For reference, I couldn't do what I wanted using pygame alone, but
with midi-ox and midi-yoke I was able to play the midi file and use
virtual midi-patches to pipe info to both pygame and my system's midi
player.
Neat!

On Oct 27, 10:33 am, René Dudfield <ren...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> you should be able to do it with pygame.midi with a fair bit of work.
> However pygame currently does not have any special midi timing code, so
> you'd have to write that yourself (or maybe someone else has written some).
> You'd also need to do the midi file parsing yourself.  There's probably
> existing packages to do both though.
>
> There's the pygame.midi module, which can get input midi, and also output
> midi.  There is also pygame.music.play which can play midi.
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Ivan DelSol <sunspi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm writing a visualizer for midi in pygame. Currently, I play a midi
> > file in one program and get midi events in pygame via a virtual patch
> > cable.
> > I'd much rather play the midi file in pygame and receive the events,
> > so that the user doesn't have to run a virtual patch program at the
> > same time. Is that possible?