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From: czei@neutron.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger)
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Subject: Re: Wish-List: Decent MIDI support for the Macintosh
Keywords: Mac, MIDI
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Date: 28 Dec 88 14:17:16 GMT
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In article <27248@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>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.

I've never tried to use the routines, but the are reputed not to work.  My 
source is an Apple employee on the Performing Arts Network's Midi Development
Forum, so I'm pretty sure this is an accurate assessment.  I've also communicated
with David Ziccarelli on the MIDI forum, and he said after a year of work on
OvalTunes, he still has no idea how the Sound Manager is supposed to work!  

It sounds like the Sound Manager + MIDI won't be up to stuff until system 7.0
or beyond.


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