Python & Music: Performance question

[Bob van der Poel]

Max M wrote:
> achrist at easystreet.com wrote:
> 
>>Is there anything in Python like the Midi support in the java
>>sdk?  (under MS Windows) It's pretty easy in java to send midi data 
>>straight from the program to the midi sequencer or synthesizer
>>(no need to write a file or deal with some external player).   
>>Anything like that for Python?
> 
> 
> Not really no. Especially not something that is cross-platform.
> 
> It really is a pitty, as Python would be exceptionally good for 
> algorithmic composition.
> 

Just to get a plug in for my program, MMA, 
http://www.kootenay.com/~bvdpoel/music.html, I had the same 
considerations. I ended up just having the program create midi files and 
use an external player to play them. But, it would be nice to have a 
python "play this as a midi stream" function.

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