I recently got my hands on a few MIDI devices, like a piano-style keyboard, as well as one of these.



I wanted to play osu! with them to see how it'd feel, so I wrote something to read midi input with ALSA and translate it to key events.

Here's a video of it in action



I have another video of me playing osu!mania (the 7-key guitar-hero ish game mode) that I'll upload later but I really need to get to sleep or something right now.

Anyways, I think it's kinda neat. I'd love to try it out on Windows as well, so if anyone knows some good sources of information for MIDI input on Windows, let me know!

Looks really awesome, Great choice of song too (a little break from all that miku)
Just a few questions,
1) Whats the object in the top picture?
2) you can't play without autopilot... are there any plans to change that (not sure how this could be achieved), since clicking is only half the fun

These may be what you are looking for:
http://www.ccarh.org/courses/253/lab/midiprog/
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd798495(v=vs.85).aspx
http://portmedia.sourceforge.net/portmidi/
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/

I just need to find a place for my keyboard that isn't my lap.
Also IDK what the thing in the picture is called, I just know it's got buttons that act as midi input, as well as some knobs and stuff