PortMedia APIs

Platform Independent Libraries for Sound and MIDI

PortMedia is supported by the
National Science Foundation

What is PortMedia?

	PortMedia is a set of APIs and library implementations for music and other media.
	PortMedia is open-source and runs on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.
	Currently, libraries support Audio I/O and MIDI I/O.

Who is PortMedia?

PortMedia is the result of discussion among many computer music researchers and developers. After considering many options, the group decided to endorse the work of Phil Burk and Ross Bencina who created the PortAudio library. Supporters and users of PortMedia are listed below. Our goal is to extend the PortAudio foundation to support MIDI, sound files, and perhaps other basic music software interfaces. You can help!

Why PortMedia?

	PortMedia users benefit from simple clean interfaces for sound input and output.
	PortMedia is maintained by a community: the more we share, the less we write and maintain.
	No other cross-platform APIs enjoy a support community.

Where is PortMedia?

Mailing list: media_api@create.ucsb.edu (courtesy of Stephen Pope)

Archives: http://lists.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/media_api

Library/Function	Documentation	Source	Apps	Status
PortAudio -- real-time audio input/output	Wiki			Mac, Win32 (MME, ASIO & DirectSound), Linux, others ...
PortMidi -- real-time MIDI input/output	Wiki		PmDefaults	Win32 mme, Mac OS X, Linux Alsa 0.9.x
PortSoundFile -- sound file input/output				under discussion
PortSMF -- standard midi file input/output	Wiki			Win32, Mac OS X -- code is available

Who Uses PortMedia?

	Nicolas Bats, D::Light
	Ross Bencina, AudioMulch.com (AudioMulch)
	Phil Burk, SoftSynth.com (JSyn)
	Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Music Project (Audacity, Nyquist, Aura)
	Chris Chafe, CCRMA (future projects)
	CREATE (Spatial Sound and Squeak)
	Jan Eidtmann, (prodatum preset editor for E-MU Proteus 2000 synthesizer family)
	John ffitch, Michael Gogins, and others, (Csound5)
	RTcmix, Brad Garton (Columbia University), John Gibson (Indiana University), Doug Scott (Beatnik), and Dave Topper (University of Virginia)
	Miller Puckette, UCSD (PD)
	Douglas Irving Repetto, Columbia University Computer Music Center
	Robert Rowe, New York University (future projects)
	Craig Sapp, CCRMA ( Improv interactive MIDI programming environment)
	Belinda Thom, Computer Science Department, Harvey Mudd College
	Tim Thompson, AT&T (KeyKit)
	University of Michigan MUSEN Project
	Wave Idea, Bitstream 3x
	Matt Wright, CNMAT (future projects)
	(should your name be here?)