OpenEuphoria

midi (built-in synth) by direct programmatic command/control?

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Aug 11, 2003
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I'll look around on the net too, but maybe someone happens to know:

1. is it possible to send direct commands to the computer's sound card midi
synthesizer to cause individual notes to play, from a Euphoria program (ie,
NOT cause a .mid file to play, but sort of like qbasic "Play()" function can
cause specified notes to sound)?

2. if so, where can I found a list of commands, & how can I implement them
in Euphoria?

3.  also if so, can the built-in synthesizer be commanded to play specified
*frequencies* in addition to playing notes, so I could create a sort of
semi-continuous "glide" from one frequency to another? Not:  "go from here
to there at this speed" as a single command, but rather, "play this
frequency on this instrument; keep playing it until told otherwise; now play
the next higher frequency; now the next lowest; now the next lowest; keep
playing it until told otherwise; now play the next highest; keep playing it
until told otherwise....etc, etc, etc.

4.  and is it reasonable to assume that most computers today *have* a
midi-synthesizer built-in to them (lap-tops too?)?

Dan Moyer