I'm currently working on a script to convert MIDI inputs to Virtual Keyboard-style QWERTY outputs. The script I had was correctly working several months ago, but as of now is inexplicably failing to find any of my MIDI inputs.
I'm using the keyboard, mido, and mido.backends.rtmidi modules to do this. mido.backends.rtmidi runs off of python_rtmidi.
I've spent a while debugging and researching, finding that mido.backends.rtmidi.get_devices() returns an empty list ([]), rather than the MIDI keyboard and loopMIDI virtual input I have set up. Both of these inputs are detectable by typical DAWs such as FL Studio and Ableton Live.
Researching the APIs further gives me the rtmidi.get_compiled_api() method, which using the below code returns web and Web MIDI API. According to the documentation, this should return a string such as API_WINDOWS_MM or Windows Multimedia MIDI API.
The code in question:
for api in rtmidi.get_compiled_api():
print(rtmidi.get_api_name(api)) #outputs "web"
print(rtmidi.get_api_display_name(api)) #outputs "Web MIDI API"
Where am I going wrong? How can I get it to detect the inputs of my MIDI devices?
