Midi manipulation

[Tim Roberts]

Massi <massi_srb at msn.com> wrote:
>
>I'm writing a script for didactic musical purpose. As first step I
>need something as simple as possible, for example a library of
>functions which are able to play a certain note, with a given
>instrument and a given length. I thought midi was good for this aim,
>am I wrong?

No, you are correct.  I was misled by your talk about "manipulating MIDI
files".  What you're talking about is more working with live MIDI.  Alia's
links should be very useful for you.  Especially, I think, this one:

http://turcanator.tangentcode.com/
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.