AFAIK, the QuickTime GM Synth is not a MIDI device. If it were, you would see it in Pm_CountDevices etc.
Maybe your question is why doesn't PortMidi provide an internal GM synthesizer as a default output device. E.g. it would be possible to link PortMidi with QuickTime and implement a virtual MIDI device using GM Synth. This would be non-portable and would raise a lot of configuration issues. My question is why doesn't OS X provide a default MIDI output device (as does Windows)? It seems odd given that there are a couple of synths in Apple libraries (Quicktime and audio units) and Apple has Core MIDI. I fill that gap with SimpleSynth.app. If you run it, you'll have a synthesizer you can set as the default device for PortMidi. -Roger On 3/6/14 7:02 PM, Jean Bresson wrote: > Hi, > > Is it normal that PortMidi does not the the default QuickTime GM Synth as a > MIDI device on MacOSX ? > I do not see it in the pmpefaults app, nor when I call Pm_CountDevices et al. > > .. and, by the way, is a call to "Pm_Terminate" then "Pm_Initialize" the > right way to refresh the list of available devices in PortMidi ? > > Thank you, > > _______________________________________________ > media_api mailing list > media_api@create.ucsb.edu > http://lists.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/media_api _______________________________________________ media_api mailing list media_api@create.ucsb.edu http://lists.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/media_api
