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Peterdk
Peterdk

Reputation: 16025

Dynamic Midi generation and playback on Android: Possible?

Strangely I find no support for Midi in Android. The only thing that comes close is the Jetplayer, but this only takes a existing .jet file.

I want to dynamically generate a midi file with some intervals and play it. I even thought about just manually creating a .jet file with a tone and then transposing it with the jet player, but it limits the transposing to -12, +12. Which is not so good for me.

There also is a ToneGenerator on Android, but it's limited to predefined tones with no way to transpose.

Does someone know how to achieve midi generation and playback on Android?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 8837

Answers (3)

LeffelMania
LeffelMania

Reputation: 12885

Better late than never, but there's a bare-bones Java MIDI library on Google Code here: http://code.google.com/p/android-midi-lib/

That can handle MIDI file generation and you can use MediaPlayer to play it back supposedly.

Upvotes: 3

Peterdk
Peterdk

Reputation: 16025

I currently settled for the dynamic generation of midi files that then are fed to the MediaPlayer. It's quite easy to build a simple midi file generator and the MediaPlayer works correctly with it.

I do have opened a feature request for direct streaming access to the synthesizer. If you are interested in streaming midi, please rate, star, comment there.

Upvotes: 4

Alex Reynolds
Alex Reynolds

Reputation: 97004

Perhaps this Pragmatic Programmer thread might be of interest.

Upvotes: 5

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