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From: knudsen@cbnewsd.att.com (michael.j.knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Availability of MIDI software for OS-9
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.210613.3242@cbnewsd.att.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 21:06:13 GMT
References: <1991Apr19.130728.5439@pa.dec.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1991Apr19.130728.5439@pa.dec.com>, akermanis@troa01.enet.dec.com (John Akermanis) writes:
> I thank you all kindly for the OS-9 MIDI information. All questions have been
> answer with the exception of one. Do any of the packages which run under OS-9
> allows you to also record?


At the moment, no.  To record you *do* need a hardware MIDI Pak.
Just before Christmas 1990 I wrote a set of programs tor ecord and playback
under OS9 L2.  They worked, but the UART chip (6850) in my MIDI Pak
didn't like the Coco3's 1.8 MHz clock and dropped or mangled bytes
often enough to make playback rather rough, and so I stopped
working on the program until I can find some 68B50 chips.

Lately I've been porting UltiMusE to the MM/1 (and TC-70) so that project
remains on the shelf.  But it CAN BE DONE on OS9-L2, and WITHOUT
turning off interrupts or multi-tasking (in fact I use the
interrupts).  Soooo, you will be able to record, sometime this year
I hope.	--mike k (author of UltiMusE)
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	knudsen@iceland.att.com