PianoRhythm's desktop application is built with Tauri, providing a native wrapper around the web application with enhanced performance, native system integration, and access to platform-specific features like native MIDI, file system access, and system notifications.
PianoRhythm's MIDI integration provides comprehensive support for MIDI devices across web and desktop platforms, enabling real-time musical input and output through the Web MIDI API and native MIDI libraries.
PianoRhythm uses Protocol Buffers (protobuf) for efficient, cross-platform message serialization between the Rust core engine, TypeScript frontend, and WebSocket communication layer. This ensures type-safe, compact, and fast data exchange across all system components.