I’ve built a software. I want to control it via a MIDI controller (e.g. keyboard). How do I get the MIDI data from the MIDI port to my software using e.g. ALSA? I’m using Linux.
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I’ve built a software. I want to control it via a MIDI controller (e.g. keyboard). How do I get the MIDI data from the MIDI port to my software using e.g. ALSA? I’m using Linux.
Use asoundlib. This gives you MIDI events as structured objects rather than binary data.