MIDIator¶ ↑

A nice Ruby interface to your system’s MIDI services.

Authors¶ ↑

Ben Bleything – ben@bleything.net
Topher Cyll – www.cyll.org

General Information¶ ↑

MIDIator was inspired by Topher Cyll’s fantastic Practical Ruby Projects book. In it, Topher describes how to interact with the MIDI providers in OSX, Linux, and Windows. As I was reading the book, I noticed some things I would do differently, which got me thinking that maybe it would be valuable to package up my modifications to the book’s code and release it as a gem.

Features¶ ↑

Cross-platform system for MIDI output
Built-in softsynth (OS X only, so far)

Credits¶ ↑

Huge, huge credit goes to Topher Cyll, without whom I would have had to figure all of this crap out for myself. Apress also deserves some credit; they released all the source in their book under the MIT license. That’s a big deal and you should buy their books.

Props also go to the folks who have contributed patches. In alphabetical order:

Giles Bowkett – gilesb@gmail.com
Adam Murray – adam@compusition.com
Xavier Shay – rhnh.net
Jeremy Voorhis – jvoorhis@gmail.com

License¶ ↑

Distributed under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for complete text and details.