Nibbler

Parse MIDI Messages

Install

gem install midi-nibbler

or using Bundler, add this to your Gemfile

gem 'midi-nibbler'

Usage

require 'nibbler'

nibbler = Nibbler.new

Enter a MIDI message represented as string bytes

nibbler.parse('904064')

  => #<MIDIMessage::NoteOn:0x98c9818
        @channel=0,
        @data=[64, 100],
        @name="C3",
        @note=64,
        @status=[9, 0],
        @velocity=100,
        @verbose_name="Note On: C3">

Enter a message byte by byte

nibbler.parse('90')
  => nil

nibbler.parse('40')
  => nil

nibbler.parse('64')
  => #<MIDIMessage::NoteOn:0x98c9818
       @channel=0,
       @data=[64, 100],
       @name="C3",
       @note=64,
       @status=[9, 0],
       @velocity=100,
       @verbose_name="Note On: C3">

Use numeric bytes

nibbler.parse(0x90, 0x40, 0x64)
  => #<MIDIMessage::NoteOn:0x98c9818 ...>

You can enter nibbles in string format

nibbler.parse('9', '0', '4', '0', '6', '4')
  => #<MIDIMessage::NoteOn:0x98c9818 ...>

Interchange the different types

nibbler.parse('9', '0', 0x40, 100)
  => #<MIDIMessage::NoteOn:0x98c9818 ...>

Use running status

nibbler.parse(0x40, 100)
  => #<MIDIMessage::NoteOn:0x98c9818 ...>

Look at the messages we've parsed so far

nibbler.messages
  => [#<MIDIMessage::NoteOn:0x98c9804 ...>
      #<MIDIMessage::NoteOn:0x98c9811 ...>]

Add an incomplete message

nibbler.parse('9')
nibbler.parse('40')

See progress

nibbler.buffer
  => ["9", "4", "0"]

nibbler.buffer_s
  => "940"

Pass in a timestamp

nibbler.parse('904064', timestamp: Time.now.to_i)
  => { :messages=> #<MIDIMessage::NoteOn:0x92f4564 ..>, :timestamp=>1304488440 }

Nibbler defaults to generate midi-message objects, but it's also possible to use midilib

Nibbler.new(message_lib: :midilib)

nibbler.parse('9', '0', 0x40, '40')
  => "0: ch 00 on 40 40"

Also see

• midi-eye, a MIDI event listener based on nibbler

Author

• Ari Russo <ari.russo at gmail.com>

License

Apache 2.0, See the file LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2011-2022 Ari Russo