Getting started with MIDI

Question

Hi,

I'd like to write an application that reads USB MIDI data from my midi piano and quite possibly anything else MIDI I can find.

Looking for a library that works with .NET and also allows me to 'intercept' this data even if another application is using the MIDI.

Thanks

Answer 1

You might want to check out Carl Franklin's Midi library

http://www.franklins.net/dotnet/CarlsMIDITools.zip

And I'm sure he's open to any questions you may have :-)

(And be sure to listen to his awsome .NET podcast: .NET Rocks! (http://www.dotnetrocks.com/))

Answer 2

NAudio can capture MIDI in C# too, but I'm not sure about intercepting it. You might need to look at something like MIDIOX for that.