v5.0.0

New features

• Use stdx::error for error reporting until C++26 and std::error are widely available :-)
• Hunt exceptions down
• MIDI 2 support on Windows with the Windows MIDI Services.
  • Using Developer Preview 9: https://github.com/microsoft/MIDI/releases/
  • Works on both MSVC and MinGW / MSYS2.
• WinUWP support on MinGW / MSYS2.
• Getters for USB location, etc. in libremidi::port_information.
• Reverse-engineered implementation of Mackie Control Universal & Logic Control protocols. Tested with TouchMCU and a BCF2000.
• C API for bindings to other languages (libremidi-c.h).
• Python binding.
• Haskell binding courtesy of @ejconlon λ!
• Java binding courtesy of @atsushieno!
• Support for getting raw, unfiltered MIDI data (e.g. no SYSEX recombination logic).
• Computer Keyboard backend to easily map scancodes to keyboard-like MIDI maps ⌨.
• Network backend to send MIDI 1 and UMP packets over OSC 🛜.
• libremidi finally supports MIDI 2 on all desktop platforms 🎉!