Description:

midi-blaster is a quick and dirty tool I wrote to help with rapidly sending MIDI commands for testing.

Right now it only outputs MIDI, although you will notice that there is an option to select a MIDI input which is not currently implemented.

Dependencies

The following dependencies must be installed using pip install for midi-blaster to run.

• pygame
• colorama

Usage:

To launch the application: python midi-blaster

1. Choose your MIDI output.
2. Select Send MIDI.
3. Enter list of MIDI to send.

Loading MIDI from a file is supported. You can type in the letter i which will prompt the user with a pop up dialog to select a .txt file to load data from.

The format of the data in the file must be:

status byte,data1,data2,send delay

See the example below:

0x90,0x36,0x00,0

0x90,0x36,0x64,0

0x90,0x36,0x7F,0

Known Issues:

• Robust exception handling has not yet been implemented. You can crash it.
• It's difficult to get pygame to install on a Mac. If you get it installed, you'll run into crashes when attempting to load MIDI data from an external file.
• There is no graceful way to abort sending MIDI other than to force quit the app or quit the console.