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- From: akay@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Kay)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Midi programming
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.120213.10670@acis.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 12:02:13 GMT
- References: <725483441.AA06127@csource.oz.au>
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
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- Originator: akay@acis.comlab
-
- John.Gibney@f386.n632.z3.fidonet.org (John Gibney) writes:
- >Howdy, All!
- >
- >I'm trying to locate *any* copy of the following book:-
- >
- > "C Programming for MIDI", by Jim Conger
- > M&T Books
- >
- >I've discovered the book has *just* gone out of print
- >(Sep-1992).
- >
-
- If you are already a competent C programmer, then I don't think
- this book is particularly useful. Most of the book is concerned
- (as I remember) with how to represent data and how to create
- menus to control the program. The explanations of how to talk to
- the MPU were not very clear, although you could read through the
- supplied code. In particular, no use was made
- of interrupts to collect data (all done by polling), or of the
- UART mode (completely dumb mode, just like writing to a printer
- or reading from a keyboard using I/O ports). If you are just doing
- bulk transfers of voice data (ie where timing is not important)
- you will probably find UART mode is the simplest.
-
- I got much further with the technical reference manual for the
- MPU-401. Actually, it was a little booklet published by Voyetra which
- contained the technical reference manual (licensed from Roland I
- suppose) as an appendix. The first half of the booklet is a fairly
- understandable account of the main features, and also contains some
- sample C routines to get you going.
-
- I'm afraid I don't have Voyetra's phone number handy, but I'm sure
- you can find them. I got my copy from a UK distributer.
-
-
- Good Luck
-
- Andrew Kay,
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- Email: Andrew.Kay@prg.oxford.ac.uk
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