On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:55:07 +0100 "martijn sipkema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Virtualising the midi I/O ports in this manner would allow multiple > > programs to connect to the same physical midi port (for instance, a > > midi sequencer and a sysex patch editor should be able to > > simultaneously access to the same synth). > > Since MIDI is a wire protocol, this really isn't trivial. I respectfully disagree :-). I had a quick think about how to do it and came up with a solution pretty quickly. > Especially > SysEX messages can take a long time and prevent any other > events from being transmitted. Obviously this kind of abuse can cause trouble, but none that can't be overcome. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Windows NT : An evolutionary dead end.
