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On May 27, 2002 11:00 am, George Foot wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 05:03:11PM +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > In conclusion, and modulo the reversed terminology, I agree with you. In
> > particular, a DirectMusic 6 MIDI driver wouldn't fit nicely into the
> > current framework.
>
> Hmm, it just means that most OS-level MIDI interfaces work best
> if you just use Allegro's rawmidi method instead of the
> interpreted one. Allegro still does some interpretation (to
> pick out some controller changes I think) but generally it just
> passes you the MIDI data. This seems to be how the current
> Windows MIDI driver works, in wmidi.c, look how simple it is! :)
>
Also look how simple the ALSA midi driver is ;)
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