Programmer Looking to Incorporate Midi

[Dj Cryonic]

Hey everyone. I have been wanting to work on a few projects for some time now, and I have been hitting walls every step of the way.

First, I want to accept incoming midi events from a controller and convert them to whatever commands I so choose. Not just to type certain few keys or act as a mouse, but to call certain actions within any program that I write.

Second, and more importantly, I want to generate a sort of "virtual" midi controller, one that I can add multiple buttons and knobs to. This serves a specific purpose to me as I'm also developing an app that would connect to the program, so I can run commands on Traktor while I'm not at my pc.

I've worked with un4seen's bass and bassmidi, and these have been closest to success, but still nothing. While autohotkey would work partly for my first project, I cannot seem to get that to work either. I know that Bome's Midi Translator would be a solution, but that doesn't seem to work out to well, especially the free version.

tl;dr, I am a software developer looking to write a program that accepts midi controller commands (just like our dj softwares), and one that can generate midi commands (to connect with the dj softwares).

[Phi]

What is your programming background? I can tell you how to do all that ^ but I am planning on doing some in-depth video tutorials myself and releasing it to the public that way... what did you plan on contributing to the project?

I am all for collaborating on this with anyone, but I've done a lot of work on this already and I would like to see it blossom into a cool open-source platform... thoughts?

[Dj Cryonic]

I work predominately in C#, with Java as my other language. I'm not sure exactly what you are asking about with the "what did you plan on contributing to the project" question, but as stated above, I am trying to write 2 separate programs: one that will accept midi commands so I can call certain events depending on what happens on the controller, and the other to create midi commands to send out to the computer, with the "controller" being a window I design.

[Dj Cryonic]

Sooo, I replied a week ago, but it didn't go through....
I'm not sure what you meant by contributing, so I'll just re-explain what I'm looking for.

1.) I want to write a program to accept midi signals.
2.) I want to write a program to send midi signals, but the "device" sending them is a form that I make, so I can choose how many buttons there are, knobs, and so on.

And I look forward to your tutorials!