Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!xanth!mcnc!uvaarpa!hudson!vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU!pmy From: pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU (Pete Yadlowsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MIDI Software? Message-ID: <1594@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 2 Jun 89 14:54:55 GMT References: <12540@shamash.cdc.com> <310@usl-pc.usl.edu> <4051@druwy.ATT.COM> <1024@taurus.BITNET> <16364@gryphon.COM> Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU.acc.Virginia.EDU (Pete Yadlowsky) Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 32 In article <16364@gryphon.COM> keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) writes: >I've also seen several cases where it is desirable to multitask >multiple MIDI programs on the same Amiga, perhaps connect the MIDI in >port to the input of program A, the MIDI out stream of program A >connected to the MIDI in stream of program B, and the MIDI out stream >of program B connected to the Amiga's MIDI out port. Anyone ready to >design and publish a MIDI stream IPC standard? There already is one, and has been for quite some time now (for the Amiga, anyway). I've been preaching on this for months, maybe years, and I find it frustrating that more Amiga-Midiots aren't hearing the news. Bill Barton's public domain midi.library does all of the above and more. It's small, it's fast, it's Exec-based, it's easy to use. It's a system of source/destination nodes and (optionally filtered) routes that automatically controls message merging and distribution so that the programmer may freely create networks of MIDI modules, not just linear pipes. This same network mechanism allows the serial.device to be shared among several programs. The midi.library is available, free and just what the doctor ordered. Now get it and use it, dammit! << wheeeeeze >> *coff* *ahem* >And then how will we convince MIDI software developers to use it? Well, _this_ developer is using it. As for the others, educate 'em, yell at 'em, I guess. Peter M. Yadlowsky | "Pay no attention to that man Academic Computing Center | behind the curtain!" University of Virginia | pmy@Virginia.EDU |