[racket-dev] RtMidi library for Racket?

From: Marc Burns (m4burns at uwaterloo.ca)
Date: Fri Sep 26 04:30:52 EDT 2014

I have a set of RtMidi bindings for Racket. They work well on Linux,
OSX, and Windows. I will clean them up tomorrow and publish a package.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:05:14AM +0300, Antti Karttunen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:30 AM, John Clements <johnbclements at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > This looks really interesting??? but I???m frightened by the fact that it???s
> > C++, and worse-yet object-oriented.  It looks like it might require some
> > serious low-level chops to integrate this with our (standard) C-style ffi.
> >
> > Do you know of a cross-platform MIDI library that has a more standard /
> > C-like API?
> >
> 
> After a quick googling, I found this:
> http://portmedia.sourceforge.net/
> The latest version is from 2010, but at least the source-files seem to be
> in C.
> 
> Antti Karttunen
> 
> 
> >
> > John Clements
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Antti Karttunen <
> > antti.karttunen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> A question:
> >>
> >> Has there been any attempts or even discussion of including Gary P.
> >> Scavone's RtMidi-library ( http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/ )
> >> into the standard distribution of Racket?
> >>
> >> This is the furthest I could follow this trail:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/mlozanov/fluxus/blob/master/modules/fluxus-midi/SConscript
> >> but there doesn't seem to be a Windows-port, which I would need.
> >>
> >> Or does anybody have ideas for any shortcut kludge with which I could
> >> pipe MIDI-data from Racket to Windows Software Synthesizer / MIDIMapper
> >> device? I guess it's not available as a named system file in Windows, which
> >> I could just open and start writing to?
> >>
> >> I don't need this to have "real-time accuracy required by professional
> >> musicians", but just enough for demoing how to produce sounds with a
> >> moderate tempo, in general educational setting.
> >>
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Antti
> >>
> >>
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