Mido - MIDI Objects for Python
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Mido is a library for working with MIDI messages and ports. It's
designed to be as straight forward and Pythonic as possible:
.. code-block:: python
import mido
msg = mido.Message('note_on', note=60)
msg.type
'note_on'
msg.note
60
msg.bytes()
[144, 60, 64]
msg.copy(channel=2)
Message('note_on', channel=2, note=60, velocity=64, time=0)
.. code-block:: python
port = mido.open_output('Port Name')
port.send(msg)
.. code-block:: python
with mido.open_input() as inport:
for msg in inport:
print(msg)
.. code-block:: python
mid = mido.MidiFile('song.mid')
for msg in mid.play():
port.send(msg)
Full documentation at https://mido.readthedocs.io/
Main Features
-
works in Python 2 and 3.
-
convenient message objects.
-
supports RtMidi, PortMidi and Pygame. New backends are easy to
write. -
full support for all 18 messages defined by the MIDI standard.
-
standard port API allows all kinds of input and output ports to be
used interchangeably. New port types can be written by subclassing
and overriding a few methods. -
includes a reusable MIDI parser.
-
full support for MIDI files (read, write, create and play) with
complete access to every message in the file, including all common
meta messages. -
can read and write SYX files (binary and plain text).
-
implements (somewhat experimental) MIDI over TCP/IP with socket
ports. This allows for example wireless MIDI between two
computers. -
includes programs for playing MIDI files, listing ports and
serving and forwarding ports over a network.
Status
1.2 is the third stable release.
Requirements
Mido targets Python 2.7 and 3.2.
Installing
::
pip install mido
If you want to use ports::
pip install python-rtmidi
See docs/backends/ for other backends.
Source Code
License
Mido is released under the terms of the MIT license <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License>_.
Questions and suggestions
Please ask questions about Mido at
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mido-community.
This mailing list was created to give both the user community a place to ask
and hopefully also answer questions and for the developers a space to discuss
Mido development. The success of the mailing list will depend on the community
effort to also answer questions.
Looking for maintainers
This project is looking for somebody to take over the maintenance since the
original author @olemb is busy with other projects. We look for somebody or a
group of people who care about the code and would like to steer this project in
future by discussing proposals, reviewing pull requests, and looking over
issues. Please write to mido-community@googlegroups.com if you would like to
help out with maintenance.