Nope, depends on the synth what sound it produces and whether it cares about midi instruments or not; even using a soundfont doesn't guarantee it'll have all sounds that the GM (general midi) standard defines... and even if it did, the quality can and will differ... you can check out some youtube v...

Nikki wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:15 pm I threw together a little sketch
It has midi playing from a file (starts after 1 sec) and you can hook up a midi keyboard and play.
It doesn't do any of the real gameplay

AWESOME!
That's a brilliant jumpstart to help me make peace with JS, thanks ever so much Nikki!

Anyway, if you aren't married to the idea of using love2d for this, I think I would advise using p5.js for this. It has almost all your requirements covered; I'm definitely not married to using Löve or even Lua. I enjoy learning and I'm not afraid of hard work, but choosing the best langage/coding ...

Hi and welcome to the forums. I have to break it to you, that's not simple. Yes, I appreciate that now... oh my! Sounds like this little project might keep me busy for a while :huh: Thanks for taking the time to write such an extensive response :) LÖVE doesn't have a standard way of handling MIDI d...

Hello, I'm an beginner musician who tinkers with code in his spare time and I would like to write a little video game to help me make progress in music. I'm a bit of a jack of all trades, I have a guitar, a keyboard and a dualo. I would like to write a simple video game: the game plays a midi melody...