receive and react to MIDI input

[elsjaako]

Hi all. I want to write an application that reads midi notes and then
does something (specifically, play sound files, but that doesn't
really matter for this question). I'm on windows.

I went on MSDN and tried to get it to work, and I found myself getting
pretty far (considering how little I know about all this), but I
finally got stuck.

I get en error referring to a Null pointer.

What I tried to do is make it run MidiSigReceived every time a signal
is received. I will add the processing as soon as I got this step
working. I do not have my keyboard plugged in, so my computer should
not receive signals. MidiSigReceived is run once though, and only
after that does the error occur.




What I think the problem is is that midiInID has to be of type
HMIDIIN. Somewhere in the relevant .h file, I found:
DECLARE_HANDLE(HMIDIIN);

DECLARE_HANDLE I couldn't find in the headers, so I looked on the
Internet and found:

#ifdef STRICT
typedef void *HANDLE;
#define DECLARE_HANDLE(name) struct name##__ { int unused; }; typedef
struct name##__ *name
#else
typedef PVOID HANDLE;
#define DECLARE_HANDLE(name) typedef HANDLE name
#endif


I think this means that the following could be said:

typedef void *HANDLE;
struct HMIDIIN##__ { int unused; }; typedef struct HMIDIIN##__
*HMIDIIN;

but what exactly that means is I think beyond my C abilities. It seems
that a HMIDIIN is a pointer to a structure with one element: unnamed.
My attempts to figure it out didn't change the error at all. I find it
even more confusing considering midiInOpen requires a pointer to such
an object.


The relevant MSDN page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709430(VS.85).aspx



This is what I have:

#imports

from ctypes import *
from ctypes.wintypes import *

winmm = windll.LoadLibrary("winmm")

#structures and such
MAXPNAMELEN = 32
MMVERSION = UINT
CALLBACK_FUNCTION = 196608 # hex 30000
class MIDIOUTCAPS (Structure):
_fields_ = [("wMid",WORD),
("wPid",WORD),
("vDriverVersion",MMVERSION),
("szPname",WCHAR * MAXPNAMELEN),
("dwSupport",DWORD)]

# The next part defines the callback function
CMPFUNC = CFUNCTYPE(None, c_long, UINT, DWORD, DWORD, DWORD)

def MidiSigReceived(a,b,c,d,e):
print a,b,c,d,e

midi_get = CMPFUNC(MidiSigReceived)


midiInID = c_long() #The ID of the Midi connection, so we can close it
again

winmm.midiInOpen(byref(midiInID), # reference to the connection ID
0, # Midi device to use
midi_get, # callback function
0, # instance data
CALLBACK_FUNCTION) # Callback flag, makes it use the
callback, change it to 0 to remove error

# Close the connection
winmm.midiInClose(midiInID)

Or, as far as I could understand, you could use the HMIDIIN thing:

class MIDIHANDLESTRUCT (Structure):
_fields_ = [("unused",c_long)]

HMIDIIN = POINTER(MIDIHANDLESTRUCT)
midiInID = HMIDIIN()

If anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it.

Bart de Waal

 

[r]

There is a Python MIDI module, i think it is pyMIDI, have you checked
it out?

 

[elsjaako]

There is a Python MIDI module, i think it is pyMIDI, have you checked
it out?

Thank you for the responce. Unfortunately, that package is for OS X
(it doesn't say that clearly on the website). But it might indeed be
worthwhile to mention that I'd be more than happy to use a library, or
a finished product (I asked for that elsewhere, nobody had any good
ideas)

 

[elsjaako]

I think this means that the following could be said:

typedef void *HANDLE;
struct HMIDIIN##__ { int unused; }; typedef struct HMIDIIN##__
*HMIDIIN;

I figured this problem out (I'm sure there will be more...):

A handle should just be a c_void_p ...

 

[elsjaako]

Thank you for the responce. Unfortunately, that package is for OS X
(it doesn't say that clearly on the website). But it might indeed be
worthwhile to mention that I'd be more than happy to use a library, or
a finished product (I asked for that elsewhere, nobody had any good
ideas)

Never mind. I was wrong. It still doesnt work. Just managed to get a
normal error instead of WindowsError: exception: access violation
reading 0x00000000

 

[elsjaako]

Never mind. I was wrong. It still doesnt work. Just managed to get a
normal error instead of WindowsError: exception: access violation
reading 0x00000000

Finally got it to work! I will soon packige it and publish it
somewhere, so that the next person doesn't have to get frustrated
(hint: use WINCFUNCTYPE)

 

[r]

Sorry i gave you the wrong module, try PMIDI for python 2.5
(win32.exe):
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65529&package_id=106729

Also try this page near the bottom under "MIDI Mania" for more
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic

 

[elsjaako]

Hi all. I want to write an application that reads midi notes and then
does something (specifically, play sound files, but that doesn't
really matter for this question). I'm on windows.

Bart de Waal

I got it working, quickly packed it up, and posted it to sourceforge.
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/winpymidiin/.