UniMIDI

Platform independent realtime MIDI input and output for Ruby.

Also see MicroMIDI which builds a full MIDI messaging DSL on top of this library.

Features

Supports Linux, JRuby, OSX, Windows and Cygwin
No compilation required
Both input and output to and from multiple devices concurrently
Generalized handling of different MIDI and SysEx Message types
(OSX Only) Use IAC to internally route MIDI to other programs

Requirements

Using Ruby 1.9.2 or JRuby 1.6.1 (or newer) is strongly recommended. JRuby should be run in 1.9 mode where applicable

UniMIDI uses one of the following libraries, depending on which platform you're using it on. The necessary library should install automatically with the unimidi gem.

Platform

JRuby: midi-jruby
Linux: alsa-rawmidi
OSX: ffi-coremidi
Windows/Cygwin: midi-winmm

Install

If you're using Bundler, add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "unimidi"

Otherwise...

gem install unimidi

Usage

Blog Posts

In addition, some examples are included with the library

Tests

UniMIDI includes a set of tests which assume that an output is connected to an input. You will be asked to select which input and output as the test is run.

The tests can be run using

rake test

See below for additional notes on testing with JRuby

Documentation

rdoc

Platform Specific Notes

JRuby

You must be in 1.9 mode. This is normally accomplished by passing --1.9 to JRuby at the command line. For testing in 1.9 mode, use jruby --1.9 -S rake test
javax.sound has some documented issues with SysEx messages in some versions OSX Snow Leopard which do affect this library.

Linux

libasound and libasound-dev packages are required

Author

Ari Russo <ari.russo at gmail.com>

License

Apache 2.0, See the file LICENSE

ryancastro/unimidi