MIDI Tools

MIDI Tools is a nifty application, providing (as its name implies) various MIDI-related tools:

  • Real-time MIDI input and output monitors.
  • Capturing, filtering and saving MIDI input messages.
  • Windows edition only: The creation of MIDI thru connections (e.g. from/to virtual MIDI I/O ports).
  • A virtual MIDI controller board, capable of receiving and sending control change messages.
  • A virtual MIDI keyboard (outputting note messages), controlled by the computer mouse. This includes a primitive arpeggiator.
  • A window from which you can send NRPN and RPN messages.
  • A window from which you can send MIDI Program Change messages, optionally prefixed by Bank Select MSB/LSB messages.
  • A window from which you can send MIDI System Exclusive/Common/Real-time messages.
  • A powerful System Exclusive message editor/uploader/downloader.
  • A MIDI data byte converter/calculator.
  • Four virtual Mackie Control displays.

Many of the hardware audio editors from Mountain Utilities also contain some or all of these tools, but MIDI Tools provides them without the hardware-specific hullabaloo of these editors.
Thus, MIDI Tools can be very useful for small tasks and troubleshooting.

MIDI Tools 2.2.2 for macOS

New features of this version:

  • The application no longer refuses to open the "MIDI devices" dialog box when a MIDI I/O device doesn't have a name, manufacturer, model or unique ID. Instead, the "MIDI devices" dialog box now calls any undefined property "UNDEFINED".
  • Mackie monitor windows no longer have the wrong height when the user makes them visible for the first time.
File
miditls-2.2.2.dmg (3.28 MB)

MIDI Tools 2.2.2 for Windows - Installer

New features of this version:

  • Error messages concerning MIDI I/O devices have become more informative: they now always mention the MIDI I/O device involved.
  • In the Mackie monitor windows, the legend ("1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8") is displayed correctly in all Windows display themes and application skins.
  • The Mackie monitor windows shrink vertically to exclude the legend when it has been disabled.
  • The Mackie monitor windows support Windows 10's "Per Monitor v2" DPI awareness protocol.
File
miditls-2.2.2-install.exe (5.39 MB)

MIDI Tools 2.2.2 for Windows - Portable 32-bit

This is the 32-bit portable edition of MIDI Tools 2.2.2 for Windows.
You don't need to install this edition: simply unzip it to a folder to which you have write-access and run MidiTls.exe.
This edition runs on 32- and 64-bit Windows, although for 64-bit Windows the 64-bit portable edition is recommended.

File
miditls-2.2.2-x86-portable.zip (4.37 MB)

MIDI Tools 2.2.2 Manual

This is the manual for all editions of MIDI Tools 2.2.2.

Note: All the above editions of MIDI Tools 2.2.2 contain this manual too and will install or extract it automatically, so you don't need to download it separately here. So if you're updating from a previous version, just download the corresponding package above and install or extract it, and you'll be able to read the manual anyway.

File
midi-tools-manual-2.2.2.pdf (710.82 KB)
Obsolete versions
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Screenshots
MIDI output meters window
MIDI controllers window
MIDI keyboard window
MIDI System Exclusive messages window