Mido is a library for working with MIDI messages and ports. It's designed to be as straight forward and Pythonic as possible:
>>> import mido
>>> msg = mido.Message('note_on', note=60)
>>> msg.note
60
>>> msg.bytes()
[144, 60, 64]
>>> msg.copy(channel=2)
<message note_on channel=2 note=60 velocity=64 time=0>with mido.open_input('LinnStrument') as inport:
for msg in inport:
print(msg)port = mido.open_output()
port.send(msg)mid = mido.MidiFile('song.mid')
for msg in mid.play():
port.send(msg)Full documentation at https://mido.readthedocs.io/
- 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.
1.2 is the third stable release.
Mido targets Python 2.7 and 3.2.
pip install mido
If you want to use ports:
pip install python-rtmidi
See docs/backends/ for other backends.
https://github.com/olemb/mido/
Mido is released under the terms of the MIT license.
Ole Martin Bjorndalen - ombdalen@gmail.com