# Android Mode Midi - Tutorial request

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/android-mode-midi-tutorial-request/539>\
**Category:** Processing for Android\
**Created:** [May 30, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/android-mode-midi-tutorial-request/539 "2018-05-30T16:08:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![sensn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@sensn](https://discourse.processing.org/u/sensn)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/android-mode-midi-tutorial-request/539/1 "2018-05-30T16:08:59Z")

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Hi,

I’m looking for a tutorial about Midi in Android mode.  
The Sensor Tutorial on Processing for Android is great, so something like that for android.media.midi would be really really helpful. Unfortunatly I couldn’t find anything on the web so far.

Best, sensn

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**Author:** ![akenaton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@akenaton](https://discourse.processing.org/u/akenaton)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 9:23am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/android-mode-midi-tutorial-request/539/2 "2018-05-31T09:23:16Z")

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@sensn===

can you be more precise? - Android supports natively midi files and can play them with media player…

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**Author:** ![sensn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@sensn](https://discourse.processing.org/u/sensn)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/android-mode-midi-tutorial-request/539/3 "2018-05-31T13:02:51Z")

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I’m looking for a way to send CC and Sysex-data to an external hardware synth. I’d like to make a soundeditor-app, and I think this could be possible with Processing for android, but I don’t know how to set it up. I’d need to know how to implement MidiManager and Input/Output ports from android.media.midi.  
Maybe a simple example how to send a Note-on event to a external hardware-synth would be enough to get started.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![akenaton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@akenaton](https://discourse.processing.org/u/akenaton)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/android-mode-midi-tutorial-request/539/4 "2018-05-31T15:02:53Z")

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@sens===  
i think that it s possible; i have done things of this kind with Eclipse but leave me some days for trying with P5…

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**Author:** ![sensn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@sensn](https://discourse.processing.org/u/sensn)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/android-mode-midi-tutorial-request/539/5 "2018-05-31T15:37:14Z")

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Great. I don’t have any experience with eclipse, thats why i wanted to take the P5 route…  
Just curious if it can be done. Let me know if you get some results.  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![chanof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@chanof](https://discourse.processing.org/u/chanof)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/android-mode-midi-tutorial-request/539/6 "2018-07-04T13:21:21Z")

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I’m also looking for a MIDI Processing library that works inside an android device.  
A year ago I tried with midibus which is incompatible with android. I created a sequencer in processing but I can not get a midi usb port on the android device to send notoON / noteOFF and CC messages.  
I have easy transcribed the sequencer inside android studio but I’m not able to add what’s on android.media.midi.  
The purpose is to use the touch screen with the processing sequencer i built to control with an android device a musical hardware with midi input.  
Does anyone know if wesen/rwmidi work also inside android devices via USB?

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**Author:** ![sensn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@sensn](https://discourse.processing.org/u/sensn)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 9:20am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/android-mode-midi-tutorial-request/539/7 "2018-07-05T09:20:04Z")

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> [@akenaton](#):
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> i think that it s possible; i have done things of this kind with Eclipse but leave me some days for trying with P5…

I’m still interested in this topic too, I wonder why it’s not part of the ketai library?  
Any news from akenaton?