mindi

Extremely minimal MIDI library, for old or otherwise resource-limited systems.

Currently a work in progress and very volatile.

Dependencies

• Be sure to check out submodules! maug and mbeep are required for building.
• Check framework, for running tests: sudo apt install check
• ALSA development libraries for beep playback on Linux (not required for DOS, see below): sudo apt install libasound2-dev

DOS MIDI Player

(WARNING: Experimental, extremely funny-sounding. Needs work! If you try it right now on a real machine, you will probably have to reboot that machine!)

midibeep is a simple one-track MIDI player that can be cross-compiled for DOS from a modern UNIX-like system. Given a type 1 MIDI file and a track number, it will attempt to beep out that track on the PC speaker. It requires the OpenWatcom compiler to compile.

• Ensure that wcc and wcl are in your PATH.
• Ensure that the WATCOM environment variable is set to your watcom installation directory (e.g. /opt/watcom).
• Ensure that the INCLUDE environment variable is set to the h subdirectory of your watcom installation directory (e.g. /opt/watcom/h).
• Execute make midibeep.exe in the project root.

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20140216225718/http://www.sonicspot.com/guide/midifiles.html
• https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~craig/articles/linuxmidi/misc/essenmidi.html
• http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ich/classes/mumt306/StandardMIDIfileformat.html#BM3\_1
• https://www.recordingblogs.com/wiki/musical-instrument-digital-interface-midi

Documentation available at: https://indigoparadox.github.io/mindi/