Another Processing library that I have looked into is RWMidi Processing which is another relatively simple and easy to use set of MIDI tools. To illustrate how to use the library Wesen, from Ruin & Wesen, produced a screen cast on how to make a “Game of Life” sequencer. I decided to have a look at the sequencer to see if I could route the MIDI from Processing to other applications, like Ableton Live and Reason. I accomplished this using the IAC Driver found in the Audio MIDI Setup utility. I routed the MIDI data to Reason to have a listen to the results, then started manipulating some of the behavior of the sequencer. Later I decided to route the MIDI to Ableton Live. After that, one thing led to another and now I have the building blocks for a new track. Here’s a rendered snippet of the MIDI data that I captured and edited for the piece.
Sine of Life
i dig it !
Nice! Very mellow syntho pillow ball fun. Is this going to be integrated into your full-length release?
sounds great, but where did you get OSXMidiSPI from?
ruin&wesen took it off their site :/
Fortunately Ruin & Wesen’s RWMidi Processing library works with mmj (Mac OS X universal binary java Midi subsystem) which can be found at http://humatic.de/htools/mmj.htm. So, the discontinued OSXMidiSPI is unnecessary.
thanks a lot, works great!
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I finally finished work on an expansion of this original sequencer. Its a bank of 6 of them, with a bunch of additional features. You might be interested in it: http://www.grantmuller.com/projects/game-of-life/
Nice one, Grant. Looks interesting based on the screencast. I’ll definitely have a look and post something soon. Thanks!
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