MIOS Studio

Introduction

Written in Java, MIOS Studio provides a platform-independent MIDI processing environment with advanced uploading and debugging functions for MIOS (MIdibox Operating System) in addition to general purpose MIDI utilities such as MIDI port routing, monitoring, filtering and a virtual keyboard.

MIOS Studio is written in a modular way and is published under GPL so that other programmers can make their own contributions. A number of base MIDI classes are written to interact with the Java Sound API that makes it easier for programmers to build their own applications upon.

Features

General MIDI features

MIDI device selection
Filtering of channels, message type, etc.
Advanced MIDI port routing
MIDI port monitoring
Virtual MIDI keyboard with Control Change controllers

MIOS specific features

Direct uploading of hex files with full flow control - no need to convert to SysEx first

Graphical tools for debugging using MIOS SysEx implementation:

LCD panel debugging
MIOS debugging interface with inbuilt functions reference lookup
SRAM read/write utility

MIOS debug terminal - plain text output instead of cryptic MIDI messages

History

MIOS Studio was started by Jason Williams in November 2003 as a Java-based upload utility for MIOS. Development was later taken over by Adam King and MIOS Studio was expanded to include general purpose MIDI utilities and more debugging features for MIOS. Thorsten Klose has improved the upload functions to accommodate the MIOS32 platform, and Rutger Vlek has built upon the codebase for his own MB SID V2 Editor.

Download

The latest MIOS Studio binaries are available at the MIOS Download Page

Help and Installation

Help and instructions for installing MIOS Studio are available at the midibox.org MIOS Studio Wiki Entry

Source Code

Full source code and JavaDoc documentation for MIOS Studio are available at the midibox.org Subversion Repository

Last update: 2009-02-08