MIDIKit

An elegant and modern CoreMIDI wrapper in pure Swift supporting MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0.

• Modular, user-friendly I/O
• Automatic MIDI endpoint connection management and identity persistence
• Strongly-typed MIDI events that seamlessly interoperate between MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0
• Automatically uses appropriate Core MIDI API and defaults to MIDI 2.0 on platforms that support it
• Supports Swift Playgrounds on iPad and macOS
• Full documentation available in Xcode Documentation browser, including helpful guides and getting started information

Abstractions

Additional abstractions for MIDI extensions can be found in MIDIKit:

• Reading/writing Standard MIDI Files (SMF)
• Control Surface protocols (HUI, etc.)
• Synchronization protocols (MTC, etc.)

Getting Started

The library is available as a Swift Package Manager (SPM) package.

Use the URL https://github.com/orchetect/MIDIKit when adding the library to a project or Swift package.

See the getting started guide for a detailed walkthrough of how to get the most out of MIDIKit.

Documentation

See the online documentation or view it in Xcode's documentation browser by selecting the Product → Build Documentation menu.

This includes a getting started guide, links to examples, and troubleshooting tips.

System Compatibility

• Xcode 14.0 / macOS 12.0 are minimum requirements to compile

• Once compiled, MIDIKit supports macOS 10.12+ and iOS 10.0+.

  tvOS and watchOS are not supported (as there is no Core MIDI implementation) but MIDIKit will build successfully on those platforms in the event it is included as a dependency in multi-platform projects.

Author

Coded by a bunch of 🐹 hamsters in a trenchcoat that calls itself @orchetect.

License

Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

Sponsoring

If you enjoy using MIDIKit and want to contribute to open-source financially, GitHub sponsorship is much appreciated. Feedback and code contributions are also welcome.

Community & Support

Please do not email maintainers for technical support. Several options are available for questions and feature ideas:

• Questions and feature ideas can be posted to Discussions.
• If an issue is a verifiable bug with reproducible steps it may be posted in Issues.
• The AudioKit discord #midikit channel is also a place to find help if Discussions and documentation don't contain an answer. (Invitation is necessary)

Contributions

Contributions are welcome. Posting in Discussions first prior to new submitting PRs for features or modifications is encouraged.