What's the easiest way to make my Windows app receive MIDI messages from a connected device? Are there any APIs that simplify this task?
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What's the easiest way to make my Windows app receive MIDI messages from a connected device? Are there any APIs that simplify this task?
Possibly DirectMusic???
That seems to just let you send. I need to read note messages from my keyboard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Queatrix
So can anyone shed any further light on this? What is this MCI prefix? Is that a standard part of the Windows SDK, or an external API? Can this function help me with what I wan to do?
I've created a virtual synth, and at the moment it uses the QWERTY keys as input - I want to make it properly MIDI-controllable.
I've got it sorted now. I've deciphered the routines in the mmsystem.h file. It works beautifully...