[Coco] MIDI with drivewire 4

[Bill Pierce]

Gene,
 In theory, that should work, but in reality it's a midi disaster. A midi file has no "clock" so therefore it will just "blast" the DW drive with data as fast as list can send it. There has to be software to send the bytes at proper intervals for it to be "musical". All midi timing is the job of the sender, the reciever just "plays it as it sees it" That's why there was so many requests for a "Standard Midi" player back in the old days.
 I actually have one I'm going to release soon. Mike Knudson started it back in the 90s but it's a memory hog and needs to be tamed to play properly. A modified version of it is included with the latest release of Sound Chaser. It just stops loading tracks when memory is full and plays what it has. If the first track is too big for memory, it aborts.

Bill P

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>

In the dw bootfile, add the MIDI descriptor, which effectively replaces the 
last /N path in dw.  list or copy a .mid file to >/MIDI and if the pc side 
is setup correctly, it should play through the sound cards midi synth in 
the pc.

> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
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