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- Hubi's LoopBack Device
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- (This info is an excerpt from midlpbk.txt, courtesy of Hubert Winkler.
- For more info read midlpbk.txt in this directory).
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- To be able to send the MIDI data generated by Sweet Little Piano to
- another Windows application, a MIDI driver, such as "Hubi's LoopBack Device"
- must be installed via the control panel. The driver offers virtual MIDI
- Ports (up to 4), which act as Input and Output. All MIDI data sent to the
- output (from a MIDI program) is delivered to all programs at the input side
- (eg. another MIDI program).
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- Installing Hubi's LoopBack Device
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- Windows 3.1:
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- Start Windows, select "Control Panel" from the "Main" group, select Drivers,
- select Add button, select "unlisted driver", OK, enter your directory
- (eg. C:\TMP). Now you should see "Hubis Loopback V2.4", and press OK.
- Now the configuration dialog comes up and you must select the number of
- ports to use. 2 should be a good starting point, but WARNING: Windows(3.1)
- cannot handle more than 10 midiports (+Midimapper).
- After Restart, the new MIDI In and Outputs will be available then. If
- you have no CTL3DV2.DLL in your \windows or \windows\system directory
- (nearly impossible) then you must install one manually.
-
- Windows 95:
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- Start->Settings->ControlPanel->Hardware Continue-> [No] ->Continue
- -> [ Audio/Video/Game Controller ] ->Continue->Disc-> [ enter the unzipped
- directory (eg. C:\TMP)] ...
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- In case of troubles, try copying the file CTL3DV2.DLL to your
- windows\system directory.
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- How "Hubi's LoopBack" works:
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- There is a MIDI output port and a MIDI input port. All data sent to the
- output will be available at the input port, that is the MIDI output from
- one program is the input of another program.
-
- Prog1 >--[ LB1 ]--> Prog2
-
- You should think about a MIDI node, which can be opened as output from
- several programs and input of others. Each of this programs is named
- "a client". The output of all OUT-clients is merged and sent to all
- IN-clients. Multi-Client means, that each node can have up to 4 IN-clients
- and 10 OUT-clients (hard coded).
- Hubi's LoopBack can serve up to 4 nodes, but changing the number of
- active ports (=nodes) requires to restart Windows.
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- About CTL3DV2.DLL
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- midlpbk.dll uses ctl3dv2.dll for their dialogs if installed. If this
- file is missing, dialogs are black/white. If Win3.1 shows an error ignore
- this.
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- Possible updates of Hubi's LoopBack Device at the following URL's:
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- http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/music/mdlpbk24.zip
- http://www.winsite.com/win3/sounds/mdlpbk24.zip
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