Identify which MIDI device you want to take input from (it may not necessarily be the default).Identify that your MIDI device is successfully connected and detected by your computer.If you wish to modify the main script by using your own MIDI controller, this script will be important for you to: This script then prints out the specific MIDI events that are triggered, so that I could identify what exactly was going on with my Alesis Q49 keyboard. This script merely tests the basic MIDI functionality provided by PyGame in order to get the MIDI devices available and poll the default input device for events. The first thing I needed to test was that I could actually get PyGame working, so that it could detect MIDI events from my Alesis Q49 MIDI keyboard.

Each script builds on the last, so that I'm closer to solving the overall MIDI synthesizer task with each increment. Within the Incremental Scripts folder, I have 6 Python scripts and one plain text file that I wrote during my incremental coding process.

That is, instead of tackling the final script at once, I like to write smaller scripts that break up the problem into smaller, separate subproblems so that I can test different pieces of the project one step at a time. I personally like to engage in an incremental coding process. You can make use of my incremental scripts to do this modification as well. If you have your own MIDI keyboard, it will be pretty easy to go in and modify my script so that it works for your MIDI keyboard. You can find more about the hardware/software I used from the following links: The audio is generated in real time using a second-order difference equation that generates a series of time-domain output values.

This code does not make use of any pre-recorded audio. That is, when you play a note on the MIDI keyboard, the script will detect the note using the MIDI functionality in PyGame and play the appropriate pitch based on which note you played using PyAudio. This project makes use of the PyGame and PyAudio packages within Python to detect MIDI events triggered from my Alesis Q49 MIDI keyboard and then output audio corresponding to the pitches played. To actually run the main MIDIKeyboardSynthesizer.py script, you will need to use the hardware/software specifically listed below. For a more detailed explanation of my project, please read the Report.pdf file.

This README only covers a general overview of the different scripts that you will find in this repository. This is the README for my Python MIDI Synthesizer project, which I completed in Fall 2015 as part of EE4163 (DSP Lab) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering with Professor Ivan Selesnick.

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