MIDI Processing, Programming, and Do It Yourself (DIY) Components

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MIDI Processing Devices and DIY Hardware

• CHD ElektroServis: Format converters, vintage retrofits, processors.
• MIDI Solutions: Processors, Encoders, and Decoders
• MIDISense controller: Extensible sensor interface to MIDI
• MIDI Gadgets Boutique: Encoders/Decoders
• Hut Electronics: Decoder & Detector
• R.Sowa MIDI Hardware: Controllers and Decoders
• MIDITool: Generic MIDI hardware device
• MIDITron: Wired and Wireless sensor interfaces
• HighlyLiquid: Controllers, Decoders, Retro-Fits
• Livid Builder: Controller boards and accessories
• uCApps.de: Non-Commercial DIY Projects for MIDI Geeks
• MIDIKits: Arduino (and "Miduino") DIY Projects
• MaxMIDI: DIY Projects and Book
• Instructables: Dozens of DIY MIDI Projects
• Hobbytronics: USB-MIDI ICs, Boards, and software
• i-CubeX:  Motion Sensors for Digitial Media Control
  
  

Programming Tools

• Bome Box: MIDI router and processor with USB, DIN, Ethernet, and WiFi connectors
• Kinect MIDI Controller SDK: Use Microsoft's Kinect to output MIDI
• Maple MIDI: Virtual Cable and Processing Plug Ins
• MIDI-OX: All Purpose MIDI Utility
• Midishare.sourceforge.net: Real-time cross-platform multitasking MIDI OS
• Developer Resource List at Harmony-Central
• Visual Basic MIDI Source Code: MIDI Message handling in VB5, VB6 and VB.Net
• MIDI Bridge for Unity (C++ API for Game Development)
• PortMedia APIs (Platform Independent Libraries)

DLS and XMF Development Tools

• Nokia Audio Suite 2.0 enables authoring of SP-MIDI, Mobile DLS, and Mobile XMF content, as well as modeling the sound as played by Nokia terminals.
• Crimson's DLS Tools is a professional editor for DLS Level-1, DLS Level-2, and Mobile DLS/XMF. It is useful for 3GPP (Mobile DLS) content authoring, MIDI sound module IC development, etc.
• Eye and I Productions (Voice Crystal®) specializes in General MIDI & custom wavetable design and offers a wide range of GM wavetable sizes; 32KB thru 128KB for Mobile DLS1 & DLS2 applications up to 32MB for professional products. Also provides technical advice on synth functionality, testing & verification..
• PolyPhontics is a full-featured DLS and SoundFont® compatible authoring tool for Mac OSX.
• FMJ Software's Awave edits and creates DLS files.
• Audio Compositor is a MIDI-to-WAV file renderer, multitimbral realtime software wavetable synth and patch editor for DLS (and other) files.
• Moderati mXMFTool (press release)