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From: nick@frinton.cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: Kirk Austin MIDI Libs
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Date: 28 Aug 90 11:44:28 GMT
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In article <1990Aug27.104230.5448@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
grund@pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Victor Grund) writes:
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|>I'm extremely interested in chatting with anybody who has some experience
|>using Kirk Austin's public domain MIDI libraries for Think Pascal.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: use Apple's MIDI Manager. The
Kirk Austin routines are extremely limited (one byte at a time, and locked
to the Mac event loop), so you'll have to do all the MIDI parsing yourself
and will never get decent performance. And, eventually, the routines will
break on new hardware and with new system software.


|>Victor D. Grund                 | grund@pyrite.som.cwru.edu [129.22.48.4]

           
Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
		nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
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