MIDI constants (YAML)

midi.yml

controller:  
  Bank Select: 0
  Modulation Wheel: 1
  Breath Controller: 2  
  Foot Controller: 4
  Portamento Time: 5
  Data Entry MSB: 6
  Channel Volume: 7
  Balance: 8  
  Pan: 10
  Expression Controller: 11
  General Purpose Controllers: 16
  General Purpose Controllers: 17
  General Purpose Controllers: 18
  General Purpose Controllers: 19
  LSB for controller 0: 32
  LSB for controller 1: 33
  LSB for controller 2: 34
  LSB for controller 3: 35
  LSB for controller 4: 36
  LSB for controller 5: 37
  LSB for controller 6: 38
  LSB for controller 7: 39
  LSB for controller 8: 40
  LSB for controller 9: 41
  LSB for controller 10: 42
  LSB for controller 11: 43
  LSB for controller 12: 44
  LSB for controller 13: 45
  LSB for controller 14: 46
  LSB for controller 15: 47
  LSB for controller 16: 48
  LSB for controller 17: 49
  LSB for controller 18: 50
  LSB for controller 19: 51
  LSB for controller 20: 52
  LSB for controller 21: 53
  LSB for controller 22: 54
  LSB for controller 23: 55
  LSB for controller 24: 56
  LSB for controller 25: 57
  LSB for controller 26: 58
  LSB for controller 27: 59
  LSB for controller 28: 60
  LSB for controller 29: 61
  LSB for controller 30: 62
  LSB for controller 31: 63
  Hold Pedal: 64
  Portamento: 65
  
control_mode:
  All Sound Off: 120
  All Controllers Off: 121
  Local Keyboard Toggle: 122
  All Notes Off: 123
  Omni Mode Off: 124
  Omni Mode On: 125
  Mono: 126
  Poly: 127
  
system_realtime:
  Start: 0xFA 
  Clock: 0xF8
  Continue: 0xFB
  Stop: 0xFC
  Reset: 0xFF
  ActiveSense: 0xFE
  
manufacturers:

  SequentialCircuits: 1 
  BigBriar: 2
  Octave: 3
  Moog: 4
  Passport: 5
  Lexicon: 6
  
  PAIA: 0x11
  Simmons: 0x12
  GentleElectric: 0x13
  Fairlight: 0x14
  BonTempi: 0x20
  SIEL: 0x21
  SyntheAxe: 0x23
  
  Kawai: 0x40
  Roland: 0x41
  Korg: 0x42
  Yamaha: 0x43
  Casio: 0x44
  Akai: 0x47
  
  Emagic: [0x00, 0x20, 0x31]
  Behringer: [0x00, 0x20, 0x32]

The problem with yaml...

https://gist.github.com/936074#file_result

The yaml file is still small so imagine the impact with the consts and manufacturers were all in yaml files

yeah, totally...

could cache the whole thing on initialization though

i dont really have strong feelings about it...be interested to know what other kinds of libraries where there are tons of constants are doing

Thinking about this some more... here's another argument in favor of YAML:

if we found the performance to be slow even with caching, it would be relatively easy to then take the YAML and generate a ruby (or any language, really) file with class and constants from it. The other way around would be a lot trickier