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- From: Aldo Hoeben <io342042@student.io.tudelft.nl>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: MIDI + C + AMIGA ??
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:50:53 -0800
- Organization: Delft University of Technology, faculty of Industrial Design and Engineering
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- Ruud van Gaal wrote:
- >
- > In <4eh5vv$7e7@bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk> 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!!
- >
- > Before you obtain a library, consider writing it yourself; MIDI on the Amiga
- > is just doing serial in/output at 31250 baud (MIDI speed, although I believe
- > another 38??? bps is also used infrequently). So your serial routines will
- > also work for MIDI.
- > Yeah, and before you start coding, be sure to design your own filesystem and
- hack, develop your own language. The point of libraries is not only making thing
- comfortable for the programmer (it does actually) but also for the enduser. For
- example, Bill Bartons midi.library will allow you to have more programms use a
- 'midi-port'(which actually is the serial port) simultaniously. Thus making it possible
- (in theorie) to have a sequencer and an midi-echo generator to run simultanious
- (multitasking, remember?). CAMD (Commodore Amiga Midi Library), as used by Deluxe Music 2,
- does this job even better, as far as I remember. Documentation on that one is a little
- short, I'm afraid. Couldn't someone write a patch for midi.library to CAMD.library? What
- reqchange did to reqtools?
-
- Aldo
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