Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.programmer:2136 rec.music.synth:4321 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!oster 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 Message-ID: <25722@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 19 Aug 88 13:02:24 GMT References: <132@falstaf.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <2542@uoregon.uoregon.edu> <6838@well.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley Lines: 24 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 Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --I didn't know you meant sloth. Uucp: {uwvax,decvax,ihnp4}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu