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- From: mimetz@amiga.de (Michael Metz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: MIDI + C + AMIGA ??
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 21:12:57 GMT
- Organization: AMIGA Technologies GmbH
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- "J.E.Hollingsworth"
- <j.e.hollingsworth@computer-science.hull.ac.uk> wrote:
-
- >Hello,
-
- >ars94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Andrew Smith) wrote:
-
-
- >>Hi, I'm trying to get a start writing MIDI programs for my amiga 500, and
- >>was wondering if anyone has written (or knows of anyone who has written)
- >>code to implement calling midi events from C. I have heard of Bill Bartons
- >>midi library but can't get that to work with SAS/Lattice C (don't know
- >>why!). I'm prepared to switch compiler if it means getting access to a
- >>ready made set of routines. If anyone knows what packages etc. are needed
- >>(either commercial or on the net) then I'd be glad to hear from you!!
-
- >I had problems programming MIDI using SAS C as it didn't seem to wait
- >for MIDI messages to finish being sent before continuing. I haven't tried
- >using the midi.library yet, but I'm currently programming a complex MIDI
- >program in E and have had no problems.
-
- >Its dead easy: filehandle:=Open('SER:',OLDFILE)
- > Out(filehandle,byte)
- > .........
- > Close(filehandle)
- > where byte would be a single byte of the MIDI message.
-
- Did anybody do a MIDI.device for the AMIGA?
-
- >Hope this helps,
-
- > James.
- -Michael
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