Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsl!floyd!saf
From: saf@floyd.ATT.COM (Steve Falco,14D-327,4865,ATTBL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Apple MIDI Driver
Keywords: MIDI
Message-ID: <4260@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Feb 90 17:28:09 GMT
Sender: nntp@cbnewsl.ATT.COM
Reply-To: saf@floyd.ATT.COM
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I have looked at the requirements for useing Apple's MIDI driver
and there is one annoying item: all outgoing data packets
must be "sanitized."  Thus an application cannot use optimizations
like "running status" nor can system exclusives be mixed with
other data.

This might be fine for new programs built from the ground up but is a
pain for existing programs which must be converted.

Has anyone found a "raw" mode whereby arbitrary data can be written?

Also, since Apple can sanitize data coming in from a synthesizer, there
should be a way to force the same clean-up routines to filter data from
an application, relieving the application of the hassles of doing its
own sanitizing.

Steven A. Falco   AT&T Bell Labs   (201) 386-4865   saf@floyd.att.com