MIDIVal

MIDIVal is a unique JavaScript / TypeScript library that aims to cover the majority of MIDI protocol and provide an easy-to-use interface for developing MIDI-enabled applications in web technologies. This makes it a perfect entry point for anyone interested in exploring MIDI capabilities as well as a great tool for all professionals who want to speed up their process and work on a higher level of abstraction. MIDIVal uses web technologies, meaning that you can create products that interact with MIDI without having to install anything on your machine. Some examples of products that can be developed on it include: - Web synthesiser librarians - In-browser synths - Collaborative MIDI devices using web sockets to synchronise messages - Mobile keyboards - Online MIDI-enabled art installations And much more. On top of browser support, it can also be run on Node.js environments allowing you to build console applications and React Native which enables you to create mobile applications for Android and iOS using JavaScript. Since recently it supports the latest addition to MIDI 1 specification - MPE! Thanks to that you can create great software devices that utilize polyphonic expressions.

MIDIVal is the only web library providing an intuitive interface to communicate with MIDI devices that can run in Node.js and React Native environments using the same code. It is the only high-level interface to communicate with MPE in JavaScript.

Since releasing the first version of the MIDIVal library, I was really fascinated by all projects that started to pop up on the internet. Two that got my interest the most are: - linnstorm: a web app for exploring Linnstrument settings and tunings. More information: https://github.com/baliset/linnstorm - hsynth-web: Hydrasynth web controller that interacts with the synthesiser in real life and surfaces more information to the user than they would normally be able to see on the built-in screen. More information: https://github.com/tylercod3r/hsynth-web