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Transcript
Elixir, MIDI & LiveView
@thibaut_barrere Consultant Ruby / Elixir / Ansible Kiba ETL /
Kiba Pro Remote 100% (Charente Maritime)
Elixir => Code-Centric Digital Audio Workstation? infiniwip (tm)
Previous episode https://github.com/thbar/demo-elixir-reloading-music Code.eval_file("music.exs")
MIDI
Note On {0x90 + channel, note, velocity} Note Off {0x80
+ channel, note, release_velocity}
Keyboard / Piano / Synthetizers photo by Clavia
MIDI controllers photo by Novation
Virtual Instruments (on computer)
Virtual Instruments (on iOS) photo by Korg
Lightning = Inter-Device Audio & MIDI (IDAM) photo by Apple
Elixir Code / DRY Refactoring Music Augmented Human (theory, scales)
Soft realtime
brew install portmidi
None
# Start a process for MIDI event queue {:ok, pid}
= PortMidi.open(:output, "Kontakt Virtual Input") note = 48 # C-4 velocity = 127 # Send "NOTE ON" PortMidi.write(pid, {0x90, note, velocity}) # Send "NOTE OFF" PortMidi.write(pid, {0x80, note})
None
Computer: Note 60 Human: WTF????
Translation def note_number_to_latin_name(midi_note, middle_c \\ @default_middle_c) do remap_note(midi_note, @latin_names, middle_c)
end defp remap_note(midi_note, names, middle_c) do offset = get_base_offset(middle_c) octave = div(midi_note + offset, 12) octave_note = rem(midi_note + offset, 12) octave_note = names |> Enum.at(octave_note) "#{octave_note}#{octave}" end defp get_base_offset("C4"), do: -12
DocTests ❤ ## Examples iex> MusicRef.note_number_to_latin_name(60) "Do4" iex> MusicRef.note_number_to_latin_name(78) "Fa#5"
Phoenix LiveView <div> <p> Time is <%= @time %> </p>
</div> HTML? ✔
Phoenix LiveView <svg> <%= for note <- notes do %>
<rect x="..." y="0" width="10" height="20" fill="<%= note.color %>"> <% end %> </svg> SVG? ✔
Phoenix LiveView <svg> <g> # white notes </g> <g> #
black notes </g> </svg>
None
None
def note_on({channel, note, velocity}, device, portmidi \\ PortMidi) do Phoenix.PubSub.broadcast(Widgets.PubSub,
"notes", {:note_on, note}) :ok = portmidi.write(device, {0x90 + channel, note, velocity}) end
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