[sdiy] Tips for writing a MIDI parser wanted

[Richard Wentk]

On 24 Mar 2009, at 10:47, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

> What do you think? Am I on the right track? Anything I need to  
> know? Anything I'm forgetting?

Other people have mentioned running status. I've found it useful to  
run the parser as a finite state machine - each status byte switches  
parsing modes until the next status byte, with a standard set of  
exceptions for sys real time, sys ex, etc.

Also, don't forget to include a hardware all-notes-off panic button. ;)

Active sensing can be useful too - run a timer, and turn all notes  
off if active sensing isn't received within a time out period.

Richard