Question about position and event

[matthewshirley]

Question about position and event

[matthewshirley]

Hey @ilionic,

Good question. MIDI has 127 bytes (notes) and a piano only has 88 notes. The lowest key on the piano is MIDI note 21. In my testing, I wanted to know the "real" key that was pressed on the device.

In regards to seeing multiple events, that's strange. What MIDI device are you using?

Was looking for some alternatives to https://github.com/djipco/webmidi with hooks support.

I initially created this repository to test the MIDIAccess API. However, I am thinking of maturing this package by utilizing the webmidi project which has covered more uses. Are you looking for hooks support or was there something lacking from that repository?

[ilionic]

I wanted to know the "real" key that was pressed on the device.

Interesting requirement but not something I would expect from midi input library, as there are standard things ( ie 69 is A4 and 440hz ). Many libraries based on such standards if I need to feed an oscillator or play piano sample. Anyway, something I tried and adjusted by addition of 21 but felt weird.
MIDI device - NI Komplete 49. I compared with bunch of other libraries and other worked fine. So settled for now with https://github.com/nickroberts404/react-midi-hooks
The reason switching from webmidi - just to have support for hooks since local state behaves strangely inside of event listeners.
Perhaps I could'v just write additional wrappers and custom hooks around webmidi but didn't have time / energy doing it.

[matthewshirley]

Thanks for the feedback and apologies for the duplicate event issue. I didn't realize that would be an unusual requirement but can remove the calculation of the position to avoid confusion. I would definitely recommend a more mature library since this has library has only had a few hours of work.