MIDI Forum

Nobody has mentioned MidiEditor yet. It is simple, cross-platform (Linux and Windows), open source, and GPL licensed.

Now that we know that your application is a software synth, this clarifies your question(s). When you say that you need to do realtime audio rendering...

I scanned through the MIDI specs and thought that the references to timecode implied that I can send out some sort of tempo message and a start messag...

You don't tell the language(s) and type of programs that you intend to develop, but anyway,.. The ALSA Library sequencer interface or the raw MIDI ...

You need a MIDI Synthesizer to produce sound from the MIDI events played at a MIDI Controller (your Keystation). Ableton comes with his own synth plug...

Sadly, the very inexpensive MIDI/USB adaptors often have problems. There are many reports here and elesewhere of such problems. The thing to do is t...

Maybe you ddon't want to talk about quality, but about realism. Let's do a little parallelism with another art... Have oil painting less quality t...

It was already asked here some time ago, and the accepted answer was Cakewalk by BandLab, which is a free product, like a free beer. It is not extreme...

The Complete Specification PDF has a detailed explanation, in pages 20-24.

MIDI Scope is currently only available on the github for corporate members of the MIDI Association. By MIDI Association you mean the MMA. That ...

The spec says: = is stored as a variable-length quantity. It represents the amount of time before the following event. If the first event...

Sorry for kickin-in so late! I've just found this discussion that somehow I missed until now. 🙁 Windows lacks two features that both Linux and ma...

My recommendation is to buy one from any reputable manufacturer. As an example, here are several products that you may like: * Roland UM-ONE *...

There is a plague of cheap chinese MIDI to USB interfaces. Maybe the following links can be helpful to diagnose yours: br /> br />