alsa-rawmidi

Realtime MIDI IO with Ruby for Linux.

Access the ALSA RawMIDI API with Ruby.

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 that implements this gem and has a similar API.

Features

Simplified API
Input and output on multiple devices concurrently
Generalized handling of different MIDI Message types (including SysEx)
Timestamped input events

Requirements

ffi
libasound, libasound-dev packages

Installation

If you’re using Bundler, add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem "alsa-rawmidi"

Otherwise

gem install alsa-rawmidi

Usage

input
output

Documentation

rdoc

Author

Ari Russo

License

Apache 2.0, See the file LICENSE