tags: smf midi python
title: Standard Midi Files in Python

There are a choice of modules: e.g. [mido](https://mido.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) or [MIDIFile](https://pypi.org/project/MIDIFile/). Here I use [MIDIUtil](https://pypi.org/project/MIDIUtil/).

# Examples
## From The Docs
```py
from midiutil import MIDIFile

degrees  = [60, 62, 64, 65, 67, 69, 71, 72]  # MIDI note number
track    = 0
channel  = 0
time     = 0    # In beats
duration = 1    # In beats
tempo    = 60   # In BPM
volume   = 100  # 0-127, as per the MIDI standard

MyMIDI = MIDIFile(1)  # One track, defaults to format 1 (tempo track is created
                      # automatically)
MyMIDI.addTempo(track, time, tempo)

for i, pitch in enumerate(degrees):
    MyMIDI.addNote(track, channel, pitch, time + i, duration, volume)

with open("major-scale.mid", "wb") as output_file:
    MyMIDI.writeFile(output_file)
```