This week, I spent time understanding MIDI; its message types, its generation, and its parsing. I wrote some sample code in Python using the mido library to generate MIDI messages, mapping some of my keys to different notes. I then pipelined the MIDI output to GarageBand to observe the latency and smoothness of MIDI generation, and was pleasantly surprised when the latency was basically unnoticeable. Next week, I will work on implementing our own audio generator, maybe with a wavetable, and try to connect it with MIDI generation.
