I was trying to write a program using midi last year and was surprised by the lack of any libraries to work with it. Then I looked up the spec and was able to g

I was trying to write a program using midi last year and was surprised by the lack of any libraries to work with it. Then I looked up the spec and was able to get all the functionality I needed with 10 lines of code interacting with /dev/midi. Incredible how powerful such a simple interface is.