MIDI.js

MIDI.js (on github) ties together, and builds upon frameworks that bring MIDI generation to the browser. Combine MIDI.js with jasmid to create a web-radio MIDI stream similar to this demo… or with Three.jsSparks.js, or GLSL to create Audio/visual experiments. Piano/guitar simulations, Drum machines, MIDI recording, and all kinds of certified funkitude are within your grasps (with a little elbow grease)!

Google Chrome is recommended for best listening experience—it has timing perfection. Firefox and Safari can both perform a bit more like the piano has been drinking, arrr.

Carpe beerum, and commandeer yer own copy!

The Jack the Tunafish artwork was graciously provided by Boni Deal; http://bonideal.com/

View a live demo of the github project; http://mudcu.be/midi-js/

Please report issues and bugs on Github or here, many thanks ?

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HTML5: SoundFonts

Color Piano Theory is now available on the Chrome Webstore. There haven’t been any major UI overhauls since last reported, but there has been a lot of work going on the back-end! Most importantly moving from the Java interface to native HTML5 <audio> tag (as Java isn’t supported in the Chrome Webstore). Although this sounds like a simple task, there’s a lot of steps involved; hopefully this will save someone else a bit of trouble!

Generating your own soundfont files;

  • JSMIDI will allow you to generate MIDI files with the MidiWriter package;
	var key = 0x45; // the note A4
	var noteEvents = [];
	Array.prototype.push.apply(noteEvents, MidiEvent.createNote(key));
	var track = new MidiTrack({ events: noteEvents});
	var song  = MidiWriter({ tracks: [track] });
	console.log(song.b64);
  • Saving the MIDI files to disk; File Writer API allows you to save those generated MIDI files to your hard-disk, or, alternatively (and a bit more simple in terms of programming), you could POST the base64 from an embedded <iframe> to .PHP, and write to the file-system;
	var iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
	iframe.src = "index.php?midi=" + (song.b64) + "&key=" + key;
	document.body.appendChild(iframe);

 

if ($_REQUEST['midi']) {
	$myFile = "./midi/".$_REQUEST['key'].".mid";
	$fh = fopen($myFile, "w") or die("can't open file");
	fwrite($fh, base64_decode(str_replace(' ','+',$_REQUEST['midi'])));
	fclose($fh);
	return;
}
  • Getting out of MIDI format; At this point, we have a bunch of MIDI files. We need to eventually get these MIDI’s -> OGG format, by mapping it to a high-quality SoundFont;
    • Older versions of iTunes allows you to batch convert from MIDI’s -> MP4’s. That was very nice feature that seems to have disappeared…
    • Online app, such as SolMire, allow you to convert from MIDI’s -> MP3’s and other formats, one at a time. I especially like that SolMire allows you to choose the desired SoundFont to use on the .MIDI.
    • MIDI2MP3 is a command line application available for Window and Mac OSX that enables you to use specific SoundFonts in your encodings, and allows you to use the command line… and therefore the ability for batch MIDI -> WAV conversion! FluidSynth Soundfont GM is a good .SF2 file to get you started ?
  • Getting into the OGG format;
    • Switch (for Mac) allows you to convert from WAV’s, MP4’s, and MP3’s -> OGG’s.
    • oggenc from Vorbis, allows you do batch conversion of WAV’s -> OGG’s using a bash script. The calls are like this:
      •  ./oggenc -m 64 -M 128 audio.wav
  • Converting the OGG’s -> base64, and storing them in .js or .jgz file(s):
The following code will allow you to take those MIDI files we created with the JSMIDI package (step #1) and convert them from WAV to OGG to JS to JGZ in seconds! Presenting a solution for the batch conversions of multiple MIDI’s into base64 soundfonts;
#!/bin/bash

# gzip     - http://www.gzip.org/
# base64   - http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/
# oggenc   - http://www.rarewares.org/ogg-oggenc.php
# midi2mp3 - http://www.audiosoftstore.com/downloads.html

# from MIDI to WAV to OGG to JS to JGZ, and beyond!

find ./directory -name '*.mid' -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file
	do
		# from MIDI to WAV
		./inc/midi2mp3 $file -sf ./sf2/FluidSynth_1.43.sf2 -e wave
		# from WAV to OGG
		./inc/oggenc -m 64 -M 128 $file.wav
		# from OGG to base64 embedded in Javascript
		echo "if (typeof(Soundfont) === 'undefined') Soundfont = {};" > $file.js
		echo "Soundfont['`basename $file`'] = 'data:audio/mpeg;base64,`base64 -i $file.ogg -o -`';" >> $file.js
		# gzipped version
		gzip $file.js -c > $file.jgz
	done
Now you’re ready to create your own custom Soundfont =)
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