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From: pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU.acc.virginia.edu (Pete Yadlowsky)
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Subject: Re: Amiga Music
Keywords: MIDI Amiga
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Date: 4 Nov 88 16:34:32 GMT
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In article <154@sunquest.UUCP> mark@sunquest.UUCP (Mark Langley) writes:

>Are there any public domain programs for interpretting the
>MIDI format?

Yes.

>I am prepared to start from scratch, reading bytes off the port

Ack! No. Don't do that. I can't, in good conscience, allow anyone
to suffer through that. :-)

Bill Barton posted the latest version of his midi.library to PeopleLink
some time ago. This thing takes all the drudgery out of MIDI. The
programmer need never touch the serial device and message parsing is
automatic. The library plugs into Exec and so supports inter-task
messaging in the traditional Amiga manner. It also automatically
handles message filtering, merging and copying. Anyway, it's about
time I posted to the net again, as there have been a few requests (hi
Tad). Gimme a few days to bundle things together. The package will
include the .library itself, documents, a bunch of .h files, two
midi.lib stub files (lattice and manx) and a few small applications.
Oh yeah, I'll also throw in a couple of files that provide JForth hooks
to the library, for all you JForthers and HMSLers out there.
Brace yerselves.


Peter M. Yadlowsky
Academic Computing Center
University of Virginia
pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU