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- From: dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh)
- Subject: Re: MMPM/2 MIDI drivers for MPU 401?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.150524.11859@nlm.nih.gov>
- Keywords: OS/2 MPU-401
- Organization: National Library of Medicine
- References: <1992Dec12.222641.13238@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec13.165956.22626@nlm.nih.gov> <1992Dec16.222533.22846@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 15:05:24 GMT
- Lines: 122
-
- >It looks like third party efforts have been done, but that's not
- >MMPM/2, granted.
- >
-
- Yeah. You probably mean Greg Bryant's (DMS) PD OS/2 mpu-401 driver.
- That's great, and there are supposedly people developing stuff using that
- driver. The problem is, of course that nothing already available can/does use
- it, which is the fault of publishers like Twelve Tone for not caring about
- OS/2 or nice gifts like Bryant's driver. Maybe Greg will jump in here with
- his two cents, I know he lurks on the os2 usenet groups.
-
- >I wonder how this new software (for sequencing and so forth) does it.
- >(The package is advertised in OS/2 Professional -- I haven't received
- >a copy yet. Does anyone have a copy of the ad available for posting?)
- >
-
- Haven't seen it, but I'd call 'em at the drop of a hat if somebody will
- post the number.
-
- >I also wonder what Creative Labs has done here. They have
- >SoundBlaster MMPM/2 drivers now which support at least sound and
- >CD-ROM. I wonder about the MIDI support.
-
- Right. And don't forget that the 'official' mmpm/2 announcement *does* mention
- midi, but not what *kind*, ie what 'standard'. Frustrating. Below excerpts
- are from summer post. Gess runs the mmos2 list which I subscribe to. He may
- know more. Also Scott Swix may know more.
- ______
- From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: IBM Multimedia for PM Announcement -- (long)
- Message-ID: <4aqooB1w164w@knex.Gwinnett.COM>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 17:55:26 GMT
- Organization: Knowledge Exchange, GA, US of A
- Lines: 756
-
- Following is the text of the Multimedia announcement from IBM.
-
- NUMBER 292-192
- DATE 920331
- CATEGORY WS00, WS20, AS47
- TYPE Programming
- TITLE IBM MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION MANAGER/2 AND IBM MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION
- MANAGER TOOLKIT/2
-
- ... stuff deleted...
-
- PLANNING INFORMATION
- IBM MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION MANAGER/2: The following functions are
- available in Multimedia Presentation Manager/2 and are comparable to
- functions in multimedia products already in the marketplace.
-
- ...stuff deleted...
-
- o MIDI Sequencing and Synthesizer support
- Provides for Media Control of audio adapters that provide
- internal synthesizer support of MIDI data.
-
- ...stuff deleted...
-
- o M-Audio Capture And Playback Adapter Device Driver (including DOS
- Virtual Machine AudioDD (Audio VDD) Interface Support)
- This is the physical device driver for the M-ACPA. It
- provides the AudioDD interface to OS/2 and DOS Virtual Machines
- programs, as well as the physical device driver interface for
- M-ACPA to the Audio and MIDI Media Control Drivers.
- ^^^^
- ...stuff deleted...
-
- o Media Player Applets
- These applets are used to play different kinds of audio,
- specifically digital audio files, MIDI files, and audio compact
- ^^^^
- discs. Each player is installed automatically if the system
- configuration supports that type of audio. They can control any
- audio device which supports simple Media Control commands like
- play, stop, rewind, and seek.
- Digital audio can also be recorded through a microphone or
- line-in jack. The recording format is 8-Bit PCM 22Khz mono,
- equivalent to FM Stereo. These digital audio files can be used
- by products that use audio.
-
- ...stuff deleted...
-
- o Extendable Data Object Format Support
- MMIO data handlers, either from Multimedia Presentation
- Manager/2 Release 1 or from an application provider, can be
- installed into the system as an extension to MMIO. In addition
- to RIFF support, Release 1 will provide MMIO Handlers for the
- following data file formats:
- - PCM, ADPCM Audio Files
- - AVC Audio Files
- - MIDI Format 0 and Format 1
- ^^^^
- - OS/2 Bitmaps
- - M-Motion Still Images
- - AVC Images
- Data handlers can be written to support additional
- MMIO controls for data translations. With these controls,
- and the appropriate support in the data handler to perform
- the translation, an application can work with media data
- either in its native form, or in a media format native to
- Multimedia Presentation Manager/2.
-
- ...stuff deleted...
-
- o Utilities
- - MIDI File Format Converter -- Converts MIDI files from format
- ^^^^
- one to format zero.
-
- ...rest deleted...
-
- ______
- >
- >I'll keep investigating this one.
-
- Thanks, me too. Would really like to get out of the dark on this one!
-
- --Don Lindbergh
- dabl2@lhc.nlm.nih.gov
-
-