midi-instrument

Can Silverlight communicate with a MIDI instrument?

Can Silverlight communicate with a MIDI instrument connected to the machine running the Silverlight application? In- or out-browser. ...

Free software physically modeled piano?

Is there any free code online for a physically modeled (i.e. not sample-based) piano sound? Examples of commercial software include Pianoteq and the firmware for Roland's V-Piano. This is for an open-source digital piano project I'm working on. ...

controlling VST instruments from Ruby

I've recently bought a copy of EZDrummer, a VST plugin that acts as a virtual drumkit. I'd really like to hook into it from Ruby code so that I can create loops and drum patterns programmatically. To be honest I am not sure even where to start. Presumably I have to create a VST host which can load the plugin and then hook into it somehow...

Java sound api - Scanning for midi devices

I'm working on a java project that receives midi events from midi hardware using the javax.sound.midi library. In the documentation, it says that MidiSystem.getMidiDeviceInfo() returns a list of all connected midi hardware. It works for me, but the problem is, it only works once. It takes a moment the first time to actually scan for the ...