MIDI over Internet

wmonk · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:38 pm Post subject: MIDI over Internet

It all started a few months ago, when in a discussion in the chat, MusicMan11712 and I came to the idea of streaming MIDI over the internet. We decided to pick it up in the summer. Well, this morning he said to me "you remember talking about midi over internet?"
We experimented a bit today. Of course we had some problems, I am on a linux machine, and he on a windows pc. In the end we tried the windows app MidiTangle. I had to run in under Wine, but with a bit of wine config, it worked!

MusicMan11712 was playing his USB midi keyboard, and I tweaked the softsynth ZynAddSubFX.

Two videos I shoot with my phone (bad audio quality!) The first one explains it a bit, the second has some music we created in the background.

Cheers,
Woody

Links:
MidiTangle: http://jcfmusic.com/miditangle.htm
ZynAddSubFX: http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/

Blue Hell · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:04 am Post subject:

And you can easily roll your own too (and be compatible with Miditangle). Just open a TCP port and a MIDI port and move on all data received over MIDI to TCP and the other way around .. just be sure to disable the Nagle algortithm on de TCP port.

BobTheDog · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:56 am Post subject:

There is also the possibility to send midi over Open Sound Control (OSC), for instance Kyma supports this on the newer machines.

This may be supported by other companies in the future, I have some Max and Max4Live internals that support this if you are interested?

Cheers

Andy

MusicMan11712 · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:17 am Post subject:

This might be useful for a self generating miditangled network http://freemusicsoftware.org/category/free-midi-vst/audio-to-midi
[from PlownZilla in chat]

patrickvf1976 · Joined: Aug 08, 2011 Posts: 135 Location: Gig Harbor

Now everyone can interact and control each others instruments all around the world like it's a giant fractal music studio! How cool is that!

MusicMan11712 · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:36 am Post subject:

patrickvf1976 · Joined: Aug 08, 2011 Posts: 135 Location: Gig Harbor

I guess it would all be a matter of ironing out issues with different internet speeds, distance and the delay that results from it but I think it should be doable if everybody in the cluster has fast enough broadband connections. Let's put together a monster network modular! Very Happy