How do I retrieve MIDI input?

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Fri May 21 03:30:05 EDT 2004


Have you looked at MidiPipe? 

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10541

It has an AppleScript Trigger that might help (I don't know much about Midi,
but found this after a search)...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/


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> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Weise, Christopher
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:38 PM
> To: 'use-revolution at lists.runrev.com'
> Subject: How do I retrieve MIDI input?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a two-year list-lurker and rev user, coming from a 10 
> year attachment to HyperCard. I finally have a question for 
> which I can find no solution from the list and/or docs. (I've 
> read numerous MIDI threads, but they seem to deal with 
> output--formatting MIDI files, playing back through QT, etc.)
> 
> I want to capture raw MIDI input from an external source 
> (typically a MIDI keyboard), connected via USB. I cannot 
> assure that users will have access to a USB-serial converter. 
> On Macs, I want to be able to go through CoreMIDI; on PC, I 
> don't know yet (Mac version comes first...). The old 
> HyperMIDI externals don't seem to work, at least in OSX.
> 
> Should/Can I:
> 1. Learn to write an external with my scripting-only (very 
> meager outside of
> HyperTalk) programming experience?
> 
> 2. Use AppleScript and/or AppleEvents?
> 
> 3. Uncover some script, external, or other solution I've missed?
> 
> 4. Find another alternative altogether?
> 
> 5. Give up?
> 
> Does anyone do this, or (perhaps) know of an apple-scriptable 
> MIDI utility from which I could retrieve the data and deal 
> with it in Rev (only way I can think to do it...)? Thanks for 
> any and all sage advice.
> 
> 
> ---------------------------
> Chris Weise
> Music and Fine Arts
> Johnson C. Smith University
> Charlotte, NC
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