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From: czei@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: MIDI for the Mac??
Keywords: LISP, MIDI
Message-ID: <490@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 19 Aug 88 14:37:18 GMT
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Reply-To: czei@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger)
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In article <25722@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>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).
>

I hate to burst your bubble, but I communicated with someone from
Apple's sound lab via PAN, and he said that we shouldn't count on
those MIDI drivers actually working as described. Also, I've read
the Inside Mac section on MIDI, and the Sound Manager is almost entirely
designed for controlling internal Mac sound stuff.  There is only
the most vague reference to passing raw MIDI to and from the port,
which is one of the things which supposedly isn't working.  


Well, they had good intentions...


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