Python MIDI in 2008

[Paul Boddie]

On 6 Mai, 11:43, Max M <m... at mxm.dk> wrote:
>

[Python Midi]

> It does not have real time support even though I did write it with that
> support in mind. I just never got around to write it as I did not need
> it myself.
>
> I also developed it on Windows and I found it to be a bore to get real
> time midi working.
>
> It would probably be easier now that I am on Linux.

I was previously quite interested in getting MIDI output working for a
game I wrote, and I suppose that the Python Midi package would have
been of interest (with pygame probably handling the interface to the
hardware), but given the bizarre kernel module gymnastics required to
support real-time output (and I still don't know if my sound hardware
actually supports MIDI directly or not), I decided in the end to use
timidity to generate normal audio files and to send those through the
sound system instead. Of course, that more or less eliminates any real-
time aspects.

Paul