alsa-rawmidi

Realtime MIDI IO with Ruby for Linux.

Access the ALSA RawMIDI API with Ruby.

Note that in the interest of allowing people on other platforms to utilize your code, you should consider using unimidi. Unimidi is a platform independent wrapper that implements this gem and has a similar API.

Features

• Simplified API
• Input and output on multiple devices concurrently
• Generalized handling of different MIDI Message types (including SysEx)
• Timestamped input events

Requirements

• ffi
• libasound, libasound-dev packages

Installation

If you're using Bundler, add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "alsa-rawmidi"

Otherwise

gem install alsa-rawmidi

Usage

• input
• output

Documentation

• rdoc

Author

Ari Russo

License

Apache 2.0, See the file LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2010-2022 Ari Russo