alsa-rawmidi

Summary

Perform low level realtime MIDI input and output in Ruby for Linux. Uses the ALSA RawMIDI driver interface API.

Note that in the interest of allowing people on other platforms to utilize your code, you should consider using unimidi. Unimidi is a platform independent wrapper which implements alsa-rawmidi.

Features

Input and output on multiple devices concurrently
Agnostically handle different MIDI Message types (including SysEx)
Timestamped input events

Requirements

ffi (gem install ffi)
libasound, libasound-dev packages

Install

gem install alsa-rawmidi

Examples

input
output

Tests

please see test/config.rb before running tests

Documentation

rdoc

Author

Ari Russo <ari.russo at gmail.com>

License

Apache 2.0, See the file LICENSE