Ability to send raw MIDI messages

Is there any way to send raw MIDI messages using SendEvent() in the form of a byte[] and bypass the object wrappers? Because sometimes the user needs to be able to send a non-predetermined or ambiguous MIDI command, including ones not defined in the standard MIDI spec.

For example the managed-midi library allows you to do this as such: outputDevice.Send(new byte [] {0x90, 0x40, 0x70}, 0, 3, 0);

I was hoping that drywetmidi has an equivalent function. Thanks!

[melanchall]

I decided to keep current signature of SendEvent. BUT it’s obviously useful to have ability to get events from bytes. So I’ve added two classes:

• BytesToMidiEventConverter which takes bytes array and returns MidiEvent read from the bytes;
• MidiEventToBytesConverter which takes MidiEvent and returns byte array representing the event.

Both classes implement IDisposable so don’t forget to use these classes inside using block or call Dispose manually.

So you can use BytesToMidiEventConverter to get MidiEvent and then pass that event to SendEvent method of OutputDevice.

Although it looks a bit complicated, in my opinion this way is much more flexible since it’s basic. New classes can be used for different scenarios, not for MIDI events sending only, providing the same API.

New classes are in develop branch so if you want to use them right now, please build the library from sources.

[melanchall]

@clarkx86, I received notification about your comment but unfortunately I don’t see it on GitHub 😦 You’re interested in when I’ll release new version of the library including changes regarding this issue. I can’t say exact date but I’ll try to make release in the beginning of February.