MIDI externals

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

If this can help, I think you could work this out via MIDI-OX. It's a 
virtual MIDI manager that can be controled via VBS/WSH... There's a 
section of the page below dedicated to scripting it... Im sure this will 
save you hours of externals writing...

http://www.midiox.com/

here's what it does...

"MIDI-OX is a Windows 95/NT program (also Win98/Me/2000/XP). It is a 32 
bit program which will not operate under earlier versions of Windows. 
MIDI-OX is a multi-purpose tool: it is both a diagnostic tool and a System 
Exclusive librarian. It can perform filtering and mapping of MIDI data 
streams. It displays incoming MIDI streams, and passes the data to a MIDI 
output driver or the MIDI Mapper. You can generate MIDI data using the 
computer keyboard or the built-in control panel. You can even record and 
log MIDI data and then convert it to a Standard MIDI File for playback by 
a sequencer. Some additional information is available in the MIDI and 
Audio FAQ. "

And it's free... for non-commercial use...

cheers
Xavier

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 24/08/2005 07:58:53:

> 
> 
> --- Ken Norris <pixelbird at interisland.net> wrote:
> 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > Is there an external for Windows (I think
> > they're called DLL's?) that
> > will select instruments and play MIDI notes
> > instantly? Not necessarily
> > a song sequence, but a note or chord.
> 
> i am working on something similar and could
> not get Shakobox for Windows to works as
> it does with Mac. am currently expanding
> from 1 channel to 16 with some extra factors
> and so have not tried this yet. send in time,
> here we come.
> 
> here are Jacquie & Jon:
> 
> > Jacquie:
> > I had some problems with that myself 
> > when I was testing the Windows
> > version. I couldn't make it work 
> > until I used the technique where I
> > wrote a temporary text file to disk.
> 
> I think this is the way you should do it. After
> you launch
> PlayCommandAgent.exe with shell(), write your
> command out to a file
> called c:\windows\playcmd.evt . Once you close
> the file it should 
> pick up the command. To do 16 channels,
> open/write/close the file 16 times.
> 
> Shakobox author
> "Jonathyn Bet'nct" <jonrelay at gmail.com>
> 
> erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org
> 
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