{- | This module used shell-haskell and a pipe in order to play MIDI music without temporary files. Today it uses 'System.Process.runInteractiveProcess'. I got this running only with GHC and Linux so far. Though it is not satisfying. It seems that @timidity@ forks itself away so that it doesn't block the prompt of Haskell. I assume that because sometimes ghci tries to write to the pipe before @timidity@ can read it. Interestingly if I start @timidity@ with an input pipe from the console it stays synchronously. Some music seems to be to large, maybe larger than a pipe buffer, then the buffer runs over and the replay fails. E.g. ChildSong6 is short enough, Kantate147 is too long. Using a pipe is the only way to play infinite streams of music using an external program. It is no problem to control a MIDI device over an unlimited time, but unfortunately the MIDI file format uses absolute time points and a file length value. Thus it is not possible to play infinite MIDI streams via the MIDI file format! For better realtime support on Linux look at the @alsa-midi@ package. -} module Haskore.Interface.MIDI.Play where import Haskore.RealTime.ShellPipe (launch) import System.IO (IO) import qualified System.IO as IO import qualified System.Posix.Signals as Signals import qualified Haskore.Music.GeneralMIDI as MidiMusic import qualified Haskore.Music.Rhythmic as RhyMusic import qualified Haskore.Performance.Context as Context import qualified Haskore.Interface.MIDI.InstrumentMap as InstrMap import qualified Haskore.Interface.MIDI.Write as WriteMidi import qualified Haskore.Interface.MIDI.Render as Render import qualified Sound.MIDI.File.Save as SaveMidi import qualified Numeric.NonNegative.Class as NonNeg import Data.Char (chr, ) import Data.Word (Word8, ) play :: (Ord instr, Ord drum, NonNeg.C time, RealFrac time, Fractional time, RealFrac dyn) => (InstrMap.ChannelProgramPitchTable drum, InstrMap.ChannelProgramTable instr, Context.T time dyn (RhyMusic.Note drum instr), RhyMusic.T drum instr) -> IO () play = playRaw [] . SaveMidi.toByteList . WriteMidi.fromRhythmicMusicMixed playSimple :: MidiMusic.T -> IO () playSimple = playRaw [] . SaveMidi.toByteList . Render.mixedGeneralMidi playRaw :: [String] -> ByteList -> IO () playRaw args stream = do -- Disable sigPIPE. This means that the whole program -- won't crash when the tool exits. Unfortunately there -- doesn't seem to be another way of doing this. Signals.installHandler Signals.sigPIPE Signals.Ignore Nothing -- (input,_,_) <- launch "play" -- (["play", "-r","11025","-t","sw","-"]) -- (input,_,_) <- launch "od" -- (["od", "-t", "x4z"]) (input,_,_) <- launch "timidity" (["timidity", "-B", "8,9"] ++ args ++ ["-"]) IO.hPutStr input (stringCharFromByte stream) IO.hClose input type ByteList = [Word8] stringCharFromByte :: ByteList -> String stringCharFromByte = map (chr . fromIntegral)