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Mido - MIDI Objects for Python
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Mido is a library for working with MIDI messages and ports:
.. code-block:: python
import mido
msg = mido.Message('note_on', note=60)
msg.type
'note_on'
msg.note
60
msg.bytes()
[144, 60, 64]
msg.copy(channel=2)
Message('note_on', channel=2, note=60, velocity=64, time=0)
.. code-block:: python
port = mido.open_output('Port Name')
port.send(msg)
.. code-block:: python
with mido.open_input() as inport:
for msg in inport:
print(msg)
.. code-block:: python
mid = mido.MidiFile('song.mid')
for msg in mid.play():
port.send(msg)
Full documentation at https://mido.readthedocs.io/
Main Features
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convenient message objects.
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supports RtMidi, PortMidi and Pygame. New backends are easy to
write.
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full support for all 18 messages defined by the MIDI standard.
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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.
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includes a reusable MIDI stream parser.
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full support for MIDI files (read, write, create and play) with
complete access to every message in the file, including all common
meta messages.
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can read and write SYX files (binary and plain text).
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implements (somewhat experimental) MIDI over TCP/IP with socket
ports. This allows for example wireless MIDI between two
computers.
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includes programs for playing MIDI files, listing ports and
serving and forwarding ports over a network.
Status
1.3 is the fourth stable release.
This project uses Semantic Versioning <https://semver.org>
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Requirements
Mido requires Python 3.7 or higher.
Installing
::
python3 -m pip install mido
Or, alternatively, if you want to use ports with the default backend::
python3 -m pip install mido[ports-rtmidi]
See docs/backends/
for other backends.
Source Code
https://github.com/mido/mido/
License
Mido is released under the terms of the MIT license <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License>
_.
Questions and suggestions
For questions and proposals which may not fit into issues or pull requests,
we recommend to ask and discuss in the Discussions <https://github.com/mido/mido/discussions>
_ section.