[sdiy] MIDI parser

[Tom Wiltshire]

> On 15 Nov 2017, at 13:39, Neil Johnson <neil.johnson71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Brian wrote:
>> I second Jay’s interest in seeing a (complete) list of available MIDI parsers. That would be quite interesting. We could even review them to see whether some have advantages or disadvantages.
> 
> For this to be really useful you would need to define a set of
> characteristics and then gauge each library against it.  That would
> then provide objective data to sift through, rather than woolly
> better/worse subjective opinions.
> Things like:
> - licence (BSD, GPL2, GPL3, etc)
> - implementation language (C, C++, PIC Asm, etc)
> - code footprint (kB)
> - runtime storage footprint (kB)
> - supported MIDI features:
>   - realtime
>   - MIDI modes (omni on/off, mono, poly)
>   - SysEx
>   - (N)RPN
> and so on.
> 
> A googledocs spreadsheet would be a start.
> 
> Neil

While I agree with Neil’s method of evaluation, I think Roman has made a good point - the best MIDI parser depends on the job you’re doing.

The highest scoring parser by some set of criteria like the above would likely be the one that does the most things (code and runtime kB scores notwithstanding). But often that’s not required, and you can pare it down for a specific job.

Tom