Will Hurt wrote: > Hi > Ive been using midipy in my blender3d python scripts on windowsXP, now > im trying to run them from ubuntu and i cant find the midipy.py module > compiled for linux anywhere. > Is it possible to complie it under linux and how would i go about doing > it --or-- > Is there another module which does the same thing available for linux[ie > i can get raw midi data in as a list] and thats why no-ones bothered to > compile midipy under linux? > > Thanks > Will >
The MIDI IO module I use pyPortMidi, supposedly supports Linux, but I have only ever used it on Windows. The links in the Python Cheese Shop seem broken, so here's the site address: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~harrison/code.html The C library it is based on is here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/portmusic/ There doesn't seem to be any documentation for pyPortMidi, so you will need to read the comments in the portmidi.h from the original C library and the test.py file included in the distribution. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/portmusic/portmidi/portmidi.h The Read() method of the input stream object returns a list of events, each event consists of 4 bytes of data and a timestamp. Each event contains a single MIDI message (not all of the 4 bytes will be used for most messages). Sysex commands are broken up into 4 byte pieces and returned as multiple events, one for each 4 bytes. Format is like this: [[[byte0,byte1,byte2,byte3],time],...] Not sure if it uses lists or tuples, since I use it mainly for output and I don't have MIDI input on this machine to test it... Hope this helps. -- Jesse Hager email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".decode("rot13") -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
