Primidi

Primidi is a customizable viewer for creating pretty midi animations. It runs a script to make different kind of animations.

Usage

You can play a midi file by either:

• Drag & drop the .mid or .midi file into the application.
• Media > Open midi file and select a midi file to open.
• By command line with primidi PATH_TO_YOUR_FILE.
• By double clicking on a midi file while selecting primidi to be the running program.

Connect midi ports

Go to Ports then Select input device or Select output device.

Change script

To change the rendering script, you can either:

• Drag & drop the .gr file into the application.
• Script > Open script file and choose a valid script (.gr).

You can also write your own script, Primidi uses Grimoire for scripting and you can find its documentation > here ! <.

For the other options:

• Reload will recompile the file and runs it.
• Restart will only run it again without recompiling.

Navigation

Shortcuts

Space, k or p: Play/Pause r: Rewind midi to the beginning s: Stop the midi F11: Hide/Show the interface F12: Toggle fullscreen

How to build

You need the following installed: dmd, dub, SDL2.

To build you only need to type dub build There is also a bash script in tools/.