[sdiy] Tips for writing a MIDI parser wanted

[Neil Johnson]

ASSI wrote:

> On Dienstag, 24. März 2009, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> [...]
>> What do you think? Am I on the right track? Anything I need to
>> know? Anything I'm forgetting?
>
> As much as you would wish, there is no shortcut to MIDI parsing

There is a grammar of sorts for MIDI on the net:

	http://www.josef-k.net/mim/midibnf.html

But this is written for transmission, and would need significant  
tweaking to be useable in a receiver, partly to make up for omissions  
in what are valid receive bytes (e.g. sysex termination), and partly  
to make it more robust against corrupted or missing bytes.
But its a start.

Neil
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