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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MIDI for Windows
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.155216.5893@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 23 Feb 90 15:52:16 GMT
References: <1990Feb19.205639.15983@chinet.chi.il.us> <2927@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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In article <2927@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) writes:
>
>	What I am proposing is the development of a standard software interface
>	to the MIDI interface spec.  This standard software interface would 
>	then be implemented with DLLs.  The user would only have to have the
>	correct DLL for his card and any software would work with it.  Windows
>	was really designed to do things like this.
>
I just found something on CompuServe (or, to be fair, I was referred to
something on CompuServe).  There's a company that has put out a set of shareware
MIDI programs.  They support about four or five different interfaces (including
the MPU401) via DLL's.  All you have to do is rename the DLL to some stock
name and the program will look for it.  I'd had this same idea and was going
to do something of the sort in the future.  Guess these guys beat me to it.

>	Just imagine having some "musical objects" defined in Actor with which
>	you could compose/program your music interactively.  It really has some
>	interesting possiblities.
>
Sometime in the future (when I can afford to buy the MPU401 to go with my
Ensoniq ESQ-1) I was planning to do something with Actor and MIDI.  Anyone
out there know where I could get an MPU401 cheap?

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