Creating a simple MIDI plugin system with DryWetMidi

Question

I wrote a small WPF app to route MIDI in to MIDI out and send bank and program change messages to my older synth module. I decided to use DryWetMidi for the MIDI I/O, which is very easy to use. While reading the docs for DryWetMidi, I noticed it had support for high precision timing. I'm wondering if these timers could be used to create arpeggiators and other such MIDI effects. Would this be as simple as processing MIDI data in the timer callback? What would be the best way to achieve something like this using this API?

Answer 1

I'm the author of DryWetMIDI (DWM). Yes, you can use HighPrecisionTickGenerator separately from other DWM API:

var tickGenerator = new HighPrecisionTickGenerator();
tickGenerator.TickGenerated += OnTickGenerated;

tickGenerator.TryStart(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1));

...

private void OnTickGenerated(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // ...
}