How do I retrieve MIDI input?

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Ken,

I can't help you for the Mac but for the PC, you can use MIDI-OX which
can do all you want with MIDI including merging different inputs (USB or 
MIDI)
into any number of channels... 

Output is also possible naturally...

http://www.midiox.com

enjoy
Xavier

On 21.05.2004 09:30:05 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>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/
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>> [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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