On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Roger Dannenberg <r...@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> > > PortMidi does list internal midi devices on OS X. You can use "Audio MIDI > Setup.app" (probably in /Applications/Utilities) to view devices and create > "soft ports" using the IAC Driver. My Audio MIDI Setup.app appears to show > every device that has been plugged in at one time or another (these appear > faded out), but PortMidi only tells you about devices that are active. The > PmDefaults application lets you save preferences -- if the preferred device > is available when PortMidi is initialized, it can be located using > Pm_GetDefaultInputDeviceID() or Pm_GetDefaultOutputDeviceID(). > > I often use SiimpleSynth.app with PortMidi. SimpleSynth can listen to > either an IAC port or it can listen to its own SimpleSynth port. This has to > match the device selected by PortMidi for messages to get through. > > -Roger > > > Thanks for the explanation Roger. I wonder how SDL_mixer on OSX can play midi files. I'm guessing it uses a different API, and there must be something in OSX that plays the midi files that's separate to CoreMidi. I thought that maybe OSX would come with a midi built in to every machine. I guess fluidsynth might be another free choice now that it's got support for OSX too. cu,
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