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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: MIDI for the Mac??
Keywords: LISP, MIDI
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Date: 19 Aug 88 13:02:24 GMT
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I would be cautious of using any of the available MIDI drivers for the Mac
now that MIDI drivers are built into the Mac operating system.

They went in System 6.0 for the MacPlus, (or the 512KE) and have been in
the Mac II Roms all along.

They are documented in Inside Mac Vol 5. (the Sound Manager).

They require that the user connect a midi interface to the modem port
before starting the program.

and best of all: they allow multiple programs and multiple tasks to share
the midi port. You can create unix style pipelines that filter and
manipulate midi data! You can use the Mac's own sound generators as an
additional MIDI synthesizer.

I'm hoping that Apple will work with the software vendors to make Apple's
software the path of choice to MIDI. I'd sure like to write filters and
accessories that work with other peoples' sequencers and librarians.


--- David Phillip Oster            --When you asked me to live in sin with you
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