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4.2.1) What are some MIDI interfaces for 386 UNIX boxes?




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This article is from the Electronic and Computer Music FAQ, by Craig Latta Craig.Latta@NetJam.ORG with numerous contributions by others.

4.2.1) What are some MIDI interfaces for 386 UNIX boxes?



To: nextmusic-list@wri.com
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 92 10:50:46 EST
Original-From: blink!tjt (Tim Thompson) Subject: re: UNIX/Midi Interfaces

> From: Roberto Sierra <73557.2101@compuserve.com>
> interfaces exist for UNIX machines. Does anyone know
> if anything is available for Unix on a 386 platform?

MPU-compatible interfaces work fine under UNIX on a 386.
A UNIX device driver called devmidi is available via FTP
(on ucsd.EDU and louie.udel.EDU). There are changes to
this device driver (also on at least louie.udel.EDU)) that
allow it to work with VP/ix, so you can run DOS MIDI software
as well.

For software, there is glib, a free generic librarian/editor.
The glib2 version on louie.udel.EDU includes support for the
devmidi driver.

This may not appear relevant to "nextmusic", but when
NeXTStep becomes available on 386 machines, it may be much
easier to write MIDI software to run on both a 386 and NeXT.
Anyone know if the Music Kit will be enhanced on the 386
to include support for the MPU interface? ...Tim...

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 10:03:26 MST
From: Mike Durian <durian@advtech.uswest.com>

An MPU-401 compatible MIDI driver is included with BSDI's
BSD/386 product. BSD/386 being a POSIX complient operating system for
386's and 486's based on the CSRG Net2 release. If you build my tclm
[see item 3.2.2 --crl] package on a BSD/386 machine with an MPU-401
card, you can enable hooks to allow you to play as well as modify MIDI
files.

mike
durian@advtech.uswest.com

 

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