[rec.music.makers] MIDI software book

jol@sei.cmu.edu (Jun Lee) (12/23/89)

Hi, Everyone.

Is there any "generic" books on writing MIDI software?  What I mean
by generic is, general for all types of computers.  I've seen it
for Macs and PC's but I have an Amiga.  I would like to get a book
that deals more with the common ground that is relevant to writing
MIDI software for all types of computers and MIDI equipment.  
I would prefer it if it is in C.   

ThanX
The Eelman
jol@sei.cmu.edu

sage@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (David Martosko '91) (01/01/90)

In article <5449@fy.sei.cmu.edu> jol@sei.cmu.edu (Jun Lee) writes:
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>Is there any "generic" books on writing MIDI software?  What I mean
>by generic is, general for all types of computers.  I've seen it
>for Macs and PC's but I have an Amiga.  I would like to get a book
>that deals more with the common ground that is relevant to writing
>MIDI software for all types of computers and MIDI equipment.  
>I would prefer it if it is in C.   

I don't know so much about books, but some guys at Carnegie-Mellon have
put together a MIDI programming toolkit which is free for the asking.  It
is written for a variety of Mac/IBM/Amiga languages, including C.  You
should write to Roger Dannenburg at CMU (I think his address is something
like Dannenburg@spice.cs.cmu.edu, but I'm not sure).

You can also download the toolkit, but I'm not sure where.  For $20 bucks
or so, he'll throw in a manual and sample programs.

Good luck

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