Re: [ANN] Lua MIDI 0.1.0

["Wesley Smith" <wesley.hoke@...>]

What about wrapping PortMIDI?
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/portmusic/
wes

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Vaughan McAlley <ockegheim@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been working on a program that processes midi information using
>  Lua. Being unable to properly understand Objective-C and CoreMidi's
>  multiple layers of abstraction, I've wasted many hours in vain on the
>  supposedly simple task of getting a simple midi stream in and out of
>  my Lua program. As a workaround I wrote a midi file parser- and
>  writer, but it's not the same as being able to play my keyboard
>  straight in.
>
>  Anyway, with Lua MIDI I was able to play my output live after half an
>  hour of fiddling. For me, the API is orders of magnitude easier to use
>  than CoreMidi, which is fantastic for a musician like me.
>
>  Thank you... my humble request would be for a version that does input
>  as well. The amount of time I've wasted on the seemingly trivial part
>  of this project has had me pouncing on any possible solutions :-)
>
>  Cheers,
>  Vaughan
>
>
>
>  On 04/03/2008, David Jones <drj@pobox.com> wrote:
>  > A mere 3 years have passed since the first release of Lua MIDI (see
>  >  http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-02/msg00309.html ).  I am
>  >  pleased to announce release 0.1.0.
>  >
>  >  Lua MIDI allows you to write Lua programs that send MIDI packets.
>  >  Currently only supported on OS X.
>  >
>  >  New features include:
>  >
>  >  Pre-built interpreter (based on the standard Lua interpreter).
>  >
>  >  MIDI packets can be scheduled to be sent automatically in the future.
>  >
>  >  A very brief tutorial is now included in the documentation.
>  >
>  >  I encourage anyone interested to get it from:
>  >
>  >  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=131184
>  >
>  >  Feel free to pester me with any questions or concerns.
>  >
>  >  Cheers,
>  >   drj
>  >
>