On Jan 13, 2017, at 2:26 PM, Dougherty, Matthew T <matthewd@bcm.edu> wrote:

I have looked around at python midi packages.

I think I can get around modifying the tk/qt event loops by polling the midi port.

I did a pip install of 'Mido' on my Mac laptop for testing using the OSx python environment.

To install the Mido library into chimera, what do you recommend?

Matthew Dougherty
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine
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From: Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 12:53:04 PM
To: Dougherty, Matthew T
Cc: chimera-dev@cgl.ucsf.edu
Subject: Re: [chimera-dev] ChimeraX

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Hi Matt,

The way to use MIDI in ChimeraX would be to include a MIDI / Qt5 library. Qt5 is the window toolkit used by ChimeraX and it controls the receiving of events from devices. I don’t know of an adequate Qt / MIDI library exists. Really we would want PyQt5 / MIDI since all Qt in ChimeraX is done in Python. The top Qt / MIDI hit is the QMidi library

https://github.com/waddlesplash/QMidi

which apparently only handles output of MIDI events, and it sounds like you are primarily interested in input of MIDI events to ChimeraX.

We welcome any recommendations on what PyQt library could handle incoming MIDI events. My quick web search turned up nothing.

Tom

On Nov 18, 2016, at 9:47 AM, Dougherty, Matthew T wrote:

Many of the USB devices I have been looking at for control surfaces are midi-centric, primarily coming out of the music industry.

For simple devices, not going the midi-route is usually straight forward, although can get complex supporting cross-platform.

For complex devices such as DS1, midi appears to be the best method for dial boxes. There is also economical advantages and an ongoing evolution of such devices.

https://www.amazon.com/Livid-Instruments-Portable-Digital-Mixer/dp/B00M4OEWMW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479490715&sr=8-1&keywords=livid+ds1

It also allows one to take advantage of manufacturer software in configuring baseline operational conditions (setting dial colors, ranges, toggling action of buttons).

We have talked about midi in the event loop before. At the time it was not clear how/if this could work under chimeraX.

Any further ideas?

Matthew Dougherty
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine
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