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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Multitasking sequencers
Message-ID: <8761@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 19 Jun 91 23:12:38 GMT
References: <6346@mindlink.bc.ca>
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <6346@mindlink.bc.ca> Rick_Younie@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick Younie) writes:
>I'm trying to multitask 2 sequencers with no luck so far.  What I'd like to
>do is send midi out from MED to midi in of Music-X, but Music-X locks
>everything else out from the serial port.  Too bad, because Music-X gives you
>the option of using either timer.

	You might try using CMD on the "Extras" disk.  This re-routes your
serial or parallel output to a file.  But hmmm... how do you get it INTO the
second sequencer?  I'm not sure.

	You could certainly do it with 2 serial ports and 2 MIDI interfaces.

>Is it possible to have 2 sequencers sharing 1 serial port?

	Not if they're both reading at the same time, or both writing at
the same time.  The data could get interleaved... and how could applications
tell which data was from which sequence?

                                                        Dan

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