JSMidi

JSMidi is a lightweight JavaScript library that can generate and play Standard MIDI (scm) files on the fly directly from your browser or JavaScript server.

Disclaimer: This is Work In Progress, and it is by no means finished yet.

How does it work?

JSMidi generates a Base64 string that can be saved as a MIDI file or played directly in the browser using HTML5 tag.

Example

This is a very simple example showing how to create a single track with 3 notes. Since timings are not specified the defaults will be taken.

// We pass some notes to |MidiWriter.createNote| to create the MIDI
// events that define the notes that will be in the final MIDI stream. If
// no other parameters are specified to |createNote|, a NoteOff event
// will be inserted automatically, instead of letting the note ring forever.

// Disregard the |push.apply|, it is used here simply to flatten the
// resulting array, since |createNote| returns an array of events.

var noteEvents = [];
["C4", "E4", "G4"].forEach(function(note) {
    Array.prototype.push.apply(noteEvents, MidiEvent.createNote(note));
});

// Create a track that contains the events to play the notes above
var track = new MidiTrack({ events: noteEvents });

// Creates an object that contains the final MIDI track in base64 and some
// useful methods.
var song  = MidiWriter({ tracks: [track] });

// Alert the base64 representation of the MIDI file
alert(song.b64);

// Play the song
song.play();

// Play/save the song (depending of MIDI plugins in the browser). It opens
// a new window and loads the generated MIDI file with the proper MIME type
song.save();

Still to be done

• MetaEvents won't be processed properly right now (this is important, and will be solved soon).
• MetaEvents shortcuts
• Reading MIDI files (it only writes to them now)
• MIDI Type 0 & 1 differences and validations

Contributors

• Sergi Mansilla [email protected]

License

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