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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MIDI Programming on the Mac...
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Date: 30 Nov 88 14:24:19 GMT
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In article <3845@ece-csc.UUCP> jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) writes:
>Where can I get information on how to use the Apple MIDI Interface?  I've
>got LSP, LSC, an SE, and one of the aforementioned Apple boxes (and Inside
>Mac I-V).  So, um, what do I do?

What you do is get hold of some library code which drives the serial ports
in the correct way. There's no (to my knowledge) way of doing this using
the serial drivers or anything like this. MIDI programs just set up
interrupt routines and have their own dirty way with the hardware.
   I have some basic MIDI byte I/O routines which somebody sent me (they
were written in assembler, but I just converted the .REL file for use in
LSC). I've built some higher-level MIDI merging and message parsing code on
top of these.
   Anybody interested in them? (I'll give out sources as well, if you want.)

		Nick.
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