midi_io 1.0.1

Midi interface inspired by WebMIDI

Midi IO

Midi IO is a Web MIDI inspired Flutter plugin for reading and sending data to MIDI devices. It abstracts away Android's Midi and Apple's CoreMidi and provides an easy to use, consistent API for interfacing with MIDI devices.

Under Development

This Plugin is under active development and may have bugs. Contributions in the form of code or bug reports are welcomed!

Features

• A sane API that hides away platform inconsistencies
• Connect to any number of devices simultaneously
• Read MIDI messages using Dart Streams
• Write MIDI data as simple lists

Getting Started

Midi is the starting point to working with the platform's MIDI system. You can instantiate this class by simply calling its constructor:

import 'package:midi_io/midi_io.dart';

final midi = Midi();

Writing MIDI to devices

You write to a MIDI MidiDestinationPort.

This is the equivalent to [MIDIOutput] in WebMIDI, an MidiInputPort in Android, and a Destination in CoreMIDI. You can see the confusing inconsistencies between platforms. So, if you want to send data, you send it to a DestinationPort.

Getting available destinations

You use Midi to get the list of destinations currently connected to the device:

final List<MidiDestinationPort> destinations = await midi.getDestinations();

You can enumerate this list to find a specific device. Note that on both Android and iOS, port.id changes based on the order devices are connected, whether they are disconnected and reconnected. So, the most reliable way to identify a port is by its name.

Sending data

Once you have a port you can open it and send it data:

MidiDestinationPort p = destinations[0];
await p.open();
// send a note on message, Middle C, full volume
await p.send([0x90, 60, 127]);

Reading From Midi Devices

You read from MidiSourcePorts. The process for finding and opening sources is similar to destinations:

final List<MidiSourcePort> sources = await midi.getSources();

Listening to data

You subscribe to a Stream of messages to read from devices. This plugin automatically converts the raw byte stream into discreet MIDI messages for you.

MidiSourcePort p = sources[0];
await p.open();

Stream<Uint8List> data = p.messages;

await for (message in data) {
  print(data);
}

Depending on the device and your use case you might find this stream to be a bit noisy with MIDI Clock messages. In that case, you can take advantage of Stream filters to hide the messages you aren't interested in. The plugin provides a filter for removing Clock messages from the data.

Stream<Uint8List> data = p.messages.where( excludeClock );

await for (message in data) {
  // awesome, no more clock messages
  print(data);
}