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  • Re: Kirk Austin MIDI Libs

    From KP2 KP2@21:1/5 to Nick Rothwell on Sun Mar 19 18:01:57 2023
    On Tuesday, August 28, 1990 at 4:44:28 AM UTC-7, Nick Rothwell wrote:
    In article <1990Aug27....@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
    gr...@pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Victor Grund) writes:

    I'm extremely interested in chatting with anybody who has some experience |>using Kirk Austin's public domain MIDI libraries for Think Pascal.
    I've said it before and I'll say it again: use Apple's MIDI Manager. The
    Kirk Austin routines are extremely limited (one byte at a time, and locked
    to the Mac event loop), so you'll have to do all the MIDI parsing yourself and will never get decent performance. And, eventually, the routines will break on new hardware and with new system software.
    Victor D. Grund | gr...@pyrite.som.cwru.edu [129.22.48.4]
    Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. ni...@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
    ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "Now remember - and this is most important - you must think in Russian."
    nice read

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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to jungletrain@outlook.com on Mon Mar 20 01:28:47 2023
    On 2023-03-20, KP2 KP2 <jungletrain@outlook.com> wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 28, 1990 at 4:44:28 AM UTC-7, Nick Rothwell wrote:
    In article <1990Aug27....@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
    gr...@pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Victor Grund) writes:

    I'm extremely interested in chatting with anybody who has some experience >> |>using Kirk Austin's public domain MIDI libraries for Think Pascal.
    I've said it before and I'll say it again: use Apple's MIDI Manager. The
    Kirk Austin routines are extremely limited (one byte at a time, and locked >> to the Mac event loop), so you'll have to do all the MIDI parsing yourself >> and will never get decent performance. And, eventually, the routines will
    break on new hardware and with new system software.
    Victor D. Grund | gr...@pyrite.som.cwru.edu [129.22.48.4]
    Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
    ni...@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
    ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ >> "Now remember - and this is most important - you must think in Russian."

    nice read

    LOL! 33 years later... 🤡

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