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From: csz@well.UUCP (Carter Scholz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Public Domain MIDI drivers available?
Keywords: MIDI, Mac
Message-ID: <7355@well.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 88 06:37:58 GMT
References: <13632@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <7337@well.UUCP> <72254@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: csz@well.UUCP (Carter Scholz)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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>There is a hypercard stack available on compuserve called HyperMIDI. It
>implements a pretty complete MIDI driver as a set of XCMDS that you can use
>as a toolbox to build up HC applications to do just about anything you want.

The problem with HyperMIDI is the problem with HyperCard: far too
slow.  Hypercard is MIDI-capable *only* for non-real-time
applications like voice librarian/editors.  For playing and
recording music you need the performance of a compiled or
threaded language.

Addendum: the Austin MIDI drivers I mentioned earlier are 68000
assembler, designed to work with Lightspeed Pascal.

Carter Scholz          csz@well.uucp