🚀 go-pugleaf

Perhaps this is the wrong group; I'm not sure, but here goes...
I would like to be able to RECORD and play MIDI information using Visual
Basic.  In particular, I need to do some handshaking with my MIDI
keyboard to send and receive SYSEX (system exclusive) data for sample
dumps, etc.

I currently have the Visual Basic Professional Toolkit package, which
includes a Multimedia control to play MIDI files, but this is of little
use to me, because as I said, I would like to also record MIDI data as
well.

Since I do not have the Multimedia Development Kit (or something
like that), nor do I have the enthusiasm to learn Windows programming at
this time (I DO know standard C), writing my own DLL or using the existing
Multimedia DLLs would be difficult.  Ideally, I would like to find a
VB control or DLL that would allow me to send and receive data to and from my
MPU401 MIDI card on a byte level (for the handshaking).

Any information would be greatly appreciated, since my favorite
MIDI sequencer runs in Windows and without some way of transporting
samples to my keyboard, I'm finding it difficult to write the music I want
to.

Thanks in advance...

Joel