[Stk] midi input from piano keyboard

Stephen Sinclair stephen.sinclair@mail.mcgill.ca
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:00:41 -0500


Hi,

You might be interested in my STK Piano program:
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/stk_piano

It is an implementation of an algorithm not developed by me, but it is 
an example of a command line program using STK that listens to MIDI and 
plays polyphonic synthesized piano sounds.


Steve


Travis DePuy wrote:
>
> Hello,
>   I am not sure if I am sending this to the right place, but here it is.
> I would like to write a program in C/C++ to read the input from my
> piano keyboard and play the music and graphically display the notes.
>
> I have the Midisport Uno, and it is working. (I found an example
> program that will read the input from /dev/sequencer (why /sequencer, and
> not /midi is beyond me... ) and spits out hex numbers that correspond 
> to the
> midi commands/notes. (Here if interested: 
> http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~craig/articles/linuxmidi/input/section1.html) 
> <http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/%7Ecraig/articles/linuxmidi/input/section1.html%29>)
>
> It is rather limited, and I am looking for some better libraries. 
> So... in my
> searching, I found STK, and it seems that STK will do what I want, but 
> I am
> not quite sure *how* to get it to do what I want.
>
>
> Any help/ suggestions etc. would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -- Travis