PortMedia is supported by the
National Science Foundation
PortMidi is a library for software developers. It supports
real-time input and output of MIDI data using a system-independent
interface. PortMidi runs on Windows (using MME), Macintosh (using
CoreMIDI), and Linux (using ALSA).
Documentation
The primary documentation is contained in the main header file,
portmidi.h. You can find this in the sources when you download the
PortMidi library, or you can see the latest
version in the SVN repository.
There is also documentation generated by Doxygen. This documentation
still needs some work, but you might like it.
PortMidi, as part of the PortMedia project on SourceForge, has a Wiki.
Visit the PortMidi
Wiki pages for more information about PortMidi.
PmDefaults Application
Applications that use PortMidi often face the problem of choosing among
multiple MIDI input and output devices. To simplify life for
application developers and to offer a reasonable interface to
application users, PortMidi includes an application, PmDefaults, which
can be used to set device preferences. Since PmDefaults is intended for
end users, it is offered as an installer for Windows and a ready-to-run
application for Mac OS X. You can read more about it on the Wiki.
