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

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Aug 14, 2003
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Brian,

Thanks, I had found Brent's lib, but it didn't work because I hadn't yet
applied the fixes Derek supplied me to get it to work with current Win32Lib;
now that you suggested it, I have applied those fixes, &  it works, &
appears to be exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks again.

Dan Moyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Broker" <bkb at cnw.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 11:34 PM
Subject: RE: midi (built-in synth) by direct programmatic command/control?


>
>
> 1. Yes
> 2. Check out the MIDI lib by Brent Hugh.  There should be enough there
> to get you started.  You would probably be interested in the
> 'midiplay.exw' demo in that package...
> 3. Yes
> 4. Yes
>
> BTW... is this for Windows?  If not, then that lib and demos won't be of
> much help to you...  I almost wrote a QB'ish play() routine to simplify
> using midi for such purposes but never got around to actually doing it.
>
> -- Brian
>
> Dan Moyer wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
>
>
>
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