MIDIFlower is a lightweight MIDI input framework for the ChucK music programming language. Written in ChucK, MIDIFlower listens for and routes incoming MIDI data to your ChucK instruments.
If you're using a MIDI controller with ChucK, MIDIFlower is for you.
Using MIDIFlower is simple:
- set your device port;
- create an instrument class;
- assign your instrument to a MIDI channel.
In detail, and assuming use of miniAudicle:
- Set your MIDI device's port number in
Device.ck(see miniAudicle's Device Browser for this number). - Create a class and inherit from
MIDIFlowerPetal. - Implement the MIDI messages you wish to respond to by overriding the corresponding methods in
MIDIFlowerPetal.ck. There are eight different MIDI messages and they're all optional. - Instantiate your instrument and
MIDIFlower.assign();it to one of 16 MIDI channels. You may assign more than one instrument to the same channel for multi-timbral performance. - Add Shred:
initialize.ck. - Add Shred:
YourClass.ck. - Play your ChucK instrument with your MIDI device!
The source code is completely documented, and Demo.ck is a basic implementation.
- Ensure that your MIDI device is transmitting on the proper MIDI channel.
- Use
MIDIFlower.log(true);to see if MIDIFlower is receiving MIDI data.
MIDIFlower is available under the BSD 2-Clause License.
© Gregory Lee Newsome 2016