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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: Wish-List: Decent MIDI support for the Macintosh
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Date: 24 Dec 88 18:06:15 GMT
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Sigh, Inside Mac Vol. 5 documents the new sound manager. This includes a
section on the MIDI pipeline. It allows for very sophisticated sharing of
the MIDI port. Not only can multiple programs transmit different messages
without collisions, then can also set up to listen to different messages,
or listen to the same messages, or even filter or transform messages
before other programs see them.

This new code is present in all macintoshes running any version of the
system software later than version 5 (i.e., newer than a year old.)

The documentation in Inside Mac Vol 5. is sketchy, and for the moment,
only the "modem" port (port A) is handled.

We need to lobby our developers to use it, and if it is buggy, lobby Apple
to fix it, since it is much closer to what we want than what we have been
using.