diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 7c0a86b..fcf8e69 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ rvm:
 before_install:
     - sudo apt-get update
     - sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
+    - sudo apt-get install timidity
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index a36febd..cd810f1 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -21,4 +21,5 @@ end
 group :testing do
   gem 'rspec'
   gem 'rake'
+  gem 'ruby-ogginfo'
 end
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 6fc6805..b4b8fa1 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -1,21 +1,14 @@
 GEM
   remote: http://rubygems.org/
   specs:
-    alsa-rawmidi (0.2.14)
-      ffi (>= 1.0)
     coderay (0.9.8)
     colored (1.2)
     diff-lcs (1.1.3)
     eventmachine (0.12.10)
-    ffi (1.0.11)
-    ffi-coremidi (0.1.7)
-      ffi (>= 1.0)
     json (1.6.5)
     method_source (0.6.7)
       ruby_parser (>= 2.3.1)
-    midi-jruby (0.0.12)
-    midi-winmm (0.1.10)
-      ffi (>= 1.0)
+    midiator (0.5.1)
     pry (0.9.7.4)
       coderay (~> 0.9.8)
       method_source (~> 0.6.7)
@@ -30,26 +23,23 @@ GEM
     rspec-expectations (2.8.0)
       diff-lcs (~> 1.1.2)
     rspec-mocks (2.8.0)
+    ruby-ogginfo (0.6.8)
     ruby_cowsay (0.1.0)
     ruby_parser (2.3.1)
       sexp_processor (~> 3.0)
     sexp_processor (3.0.8)
     slop (2.1.0)
-    unimidi (0.3.3)
-      ffi-coremidi
 
 PLATFORMS
   ruby
 
 DEPENDENCIES
-  alsa-rawmidi
   colored
   eventmachine
   json
-  midi-jruby
-  midi-winmm
+  midiator
   pry
   rake
   rspec
+  ruby-ogginfo
   ruby_cowsay
-  unimidi
diff --git a/spec/README.md b/spec/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d2af02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# Jarvis Testing
+
+This is where all of the Jarvis tests and testing framework lives. There are a
+number of files that will help support writing new tests, including RSpec shared
+contexts and rake tasks.
+
+## Running Tests
+
+Tests are run using the standard rake command:
+
+    $ rake
+
+This will fire off an RSpec testing suite with the command line options -cfs
+(coloured output and specdoc format).
+
+## Shared Contexts
+
+Jarvis has two (technically three but two are usually used in conjunction with
+each other) shared contexts that help with testing.
+
+### "server" and "timidity"
+
+This context is aimed at making writing tests that communicate with an external
+Jarvis process really, really easy.
+
+If you include these lines (in this order) in your RSpec describe block:
+
+    include_context 'timidity'
+    include_context 'server'
+
+You will get given a variety of helper methods and some before and after hooks
+will automatically run for you. First, a timidity server will be run in the
+background. It won't make any sound, instead it will output everything to an Ogg
+Vorbis file. This ogg file can be accessed using the `test_ogg` helper method.
+
+The `ogginfo` gem is used to extract information about the ogg file.
+Documentation for `ogginfo` can be found
+[here](https://github.com/moumar/ruby-ogginfo). If `test_ogg` returns nil it
+means that either the ogg file does not exist or timidity never wrote to it,
+which indicates that communication between Jarvis and timidity is not working.
+
+When timidity is up and running, a Jarvis process will be spawned. There are
+calls to `sleep` involved in booting Jarvis and timidity to give them time to
+load up.
+
+When both of these are running, the content of your test is run. There are two
+very useful helper methods that will aid in your test writing: `send_command`
+and `last_response`. Both of them are quite self explanatory. `send_command`
+will take a string and send it to the server and return the server response.
+`last_response` is a way of accessing that response numerous times.
+
+Here's an example:
+
+``` ruby
+  describe "Server" do
+    it "should respond to start" do
+      send_command "start"
+      last_response.should include('successfully')
+    end
+  end
+```
+
+When your test has finished executing the Jarvis and timidity processes will be
+killed.
+
+**Note:** This context is quite noisy. All of the server boot up logs are put
+into stdout for debugging purposes (in case something goes wrong, you will want
+to look at the server logs). Test output is often very busy with this context.
+
+### test_server
+
+The "test_server" context will give you exactly the same `send_command` and
+`last_response` helper methods as the "server" context described above, but it
+will not spawn external processes.
+
+This context will monkey patch the MusicServer class so that it does not try and
+send any data to clients. Instead, it stores that data and makes it accessible
+through the `last_response` helper.
+
+Tests written with this context will look almost exactly the same as tests
+written with the "server" context. The only difference is that there is no
+timidity server running and, therefore, no ogg file to test against. This
+context is just for doing granular tests against the server object that doesn't
+require any interprocess communication.
diff --git a/spec/server_spec.rb b/spec/server_spec.rb
index b9953f1..b8c94af 100644
--- a/spec/server_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/server_spec.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   # Tell RSpec that we're in the server context. This will give us access to an
   # instance of MusicServer in the @jarvis instance variable and access to some
   # specific helper methods.
-  include_context 'server'
+  include_context 'test_server'
 
   it 'responds to start' do
     send_command "start"
@@ -64,3 +64,38 @@
     last_response.should include('ERROR')
   end
 end
+
+# This following testing suite fires up two external processes for each test.
+# This is an inherently heavy and time consuming process so there are not many
+# specs in it.
+#
+# The idea here is to test that all of the interprocess communication works. The
+# timidity process is told to
+describe "External Server Connection" do
+  include_context 'timidity'
+  include_context 'server'
+
+  it 'should communicate with timidity' do
+    send_command 'start'
+
+    stop_jarvis
+    stop_timidity
+
+    test_ogg.should_not be_nil
+    test_ogg.length.should be > 0
+  end
+
+  Jarvis::Generators::NoteGenerator.generators.each do |generator|
+    it "#{generator} should communicate with timidity" do
+      send_command "load #{generator}"
+      send_command 'start'
+      send_command 'stop'
+
+      stop_jarvis
+      stop_timidity
+
+      test_ogg.should_not be_nil
+      test_ogg.length.should be > 0
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index ecbfc9e..4b8d93a 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -6,16 +6,3 @@
 # We don't want to hear what the generators have to say unless we explicitly
 # state otherwise.
 Jarvis::Generators::NoteGenerator.stdout = File.open('/dev/null', 'w')
-
-# Because we aren't running the server inside event machine, we need to override
-# the send_data method and keep track of the data that has been sent in the
-# current request.
-class Jarvis::MusicServer
-  def sent_data
-    @sent_data ||= []
-  end
-
-  def send_data data
-    sent_data << data.to_s
-  end
-end
diff --git a/spec/support/server.rb b/spec/support/server.rb
index 2503875..a09e2e3 100644
--- a/spec/support/server.rb
+++ b/spec/support/server.rb
@@ -1,32 +1,53 @@
+require 'socket'
+
 shared_context 'server' do
-  # Helper method to send a command to the Jarvis server.
+  @@jarvis_host = 'localhost'
+  @@jarvis_port = 1337
+
+  # Starts up the external jarvis process and waits for it to boot. Then it
+  # initiates a connection to the jarvis process under the @@socket variable.
+  #
+  # Commands can be sent to this jarvis instance with the send_command method.
+  def start_jarvis
+    @@jarvis_pid = fork do
+      exec "#{Jarvis::ROOTDIR}/bin/jarvis"
+    end
+
+    sleep(1)
+    @@socket = TCPSocket.new @@jarvis_host, @@jarvis_port
+  end
+
+  # Sends a command to the jarvis server that's running and returns the string
+  # response from the server.
   def send_command command
-    @jarvis.receive_data command
-    @last_response = @jarvis.sent_data.last
+    @@socket.print command
+    @@last_response = @@socket.recv 4096
   end
 
-  # Helper method to check the value of the last command sent.
+  # Refers to the response from the last command sent to jarvis.
   def last_response
-    @last_response
+    @@last_response
   end
 
-  before :each do
-    # Set option defaults and override testing to true
-    Jarvis.options = Jarvis.option_defaults
-    Jarvis.options[:logfile] = '/dev/null'
-    Jarvis.options[:testing] = true
-    Jarvis.log = Jarvis.default_logger
+  # Stops the external jarvis process and closes the socket connection to it.
+  def stop_jarvis
+    if @@jarvis_pid
+      @@socket.close if @@socket
+      Process.kill('SIGINT', @@jarvis_pid)
+      Process.wait(@@jarvis_pid)
+      @@jarvis_pid = nil
+    end
+  end
 
-    # Reset the commands array. This stops duplicate command errors.
-    Jarvis::Command.reset
 
-    @jarvis = Jarvis::MusicServer.new nil
+  # RSpec hook to start jarvis before every test case in this context.
+  before :each do
     @last_response = nil
+    start_jarvis
   end
 
+  # RSpec hook to stop jarvis after every test case in this context.
   after :each do
-    @jarvis.unbind
-    @jarvis = nil
+    stop_jarvis
   end
-
 end
diff --git a/spec/support/test_server.rb b/spec/support/test_server.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c3b47a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/support/test_server.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# This shared context sets up all of the appropriate methods and monkey patches
+# that are needed to create and use a MusicServer object without running it
+# through EventMachine.
+
+# Because we aren't running the server inside event machine, we need to override
+# the send_data method and keep track of the data that has been sent in the
+# current request.
+class Jarvis::MusicServer
+  def sent_data
+    @sent_data ||= []
+  end
+
+  def send_data data
+    sent_data << data.to_s
+  end
+end
+
+shared_context 'test_server' do
+  # Helper method to send a command to the Jarvis server.
+  def send_command command
+    @jarvis.receive_data command
+    @last_response = @jarvis.sent_data.last
+  end
+
+  # Helper method to check the value of the last command sent.
+  def last_response
+    @last_response
+  end
+
+  before :each do
+    # Set option defaults and override testing to true
+    Jarvis.options = Jarvis.option_defaults
+    Jarvis.options[:logfile] = '/dev/null'
+    Jarvis.options[:testing] = true
+    Jarvis.log = Jarvis.default_logger
+
+    # Reset the commands array. This stops duplicate command errors.
+    Jarvis::Command.reset
+
+    @jarvis = Jarvis::MusicServer.new nil
+    @last_response = nil
+  end
+
+  after :each do
+    @jarvis.unbind
+    @jarvis = nil
+  end
+
+end
diff --git a/spec/support/timidity.rb b/spec/support/timidity.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a2bc01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/support/timidity.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+require 'ogginfo'
+require 'fileutils'
+
+shared_context "timidity" do
+  # Starts up timidity in an external process. It is told to output all sounds
+  # in ogg vorbis format to a test.ogg file defined by the test_ogg_path method
+  # of this context.
+  def start_timidity
+    @@timidity_pid = fork do
+      exec "timidity -iA -Ov -o #{test_ogg_path}"
+    end
+
+    sleep(1)
+  end
+
+  # Stops the external timidity process.
+  def stop_timidity
+    if @@timidity_pid
+      Process.kill('SIGINT', @@timidity_pid)
+      Process.wait(@@timidity_pid)
+      @@timidity_pid = nil
+    end
+  end
+
+  # The absolute path to the test.ogg file that we are telling timidity to write
+  # to.
+  def test_ogg_path
+    Jarvis::ROOTDIR + '/spec/data/test.ogg'
+  end
+
+  # Gets the designated test.ogg file from inside spec/data. If the ogg file is
+  # empty or not there, nil will be returned. This is useful for asserting that
+  # notes actually made it to the server.
+  def test_ogg
+    begin
+      OggInfo.open(test_ogg_path)
+    rescue Exception => e
+      nil
+    end
+  end
+
+  # Sets up an rspec hook to start the timidity server before each spec
+  before :each do
+    start_timidity
+  end
+
+  # Sets up an rspec hook to stop the timidity process after each spec
+  after :each do
+    stop_timidity
+
+    FileUtils.rm test_ogg_path
+  end
+end