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tremmel@ira.uka.de (Wolfgang Tremmel) writes:



>Hi!
>Has anybody already developed sound or music - routines for MSW?
>Has he/she defined a standard for a "music resource"?
>If yes, please post it.
>If no, I think it would quite useful, to define some standards;
>perhaps something like a metafile.

>Another question: Are there some other sound drivers, e.g. one for AdLib?

Hi!

The Windows' sound capabilities are limited to the functions of the SOUND.DRV
and the function MessageBeep() (=USER.104) .  It is definitely needed, to have
a more sophisticated sound & music resource interface for Windows than that.

I'm currently writing a Windows device driver for the Roland MIDI card MPU-
401 .  When I started, I called the Microsoft reps at Kista, Sweden, to ask
whether there will be a 'standard' function-level interface for MIDI in near
future.  They said there will not be one, at least by Microsoft.

It is obvious, to me at least, that for the Windows' internal representation
of sound & music data, the existing MIDI standard will do just fine with maybe
a few additions to enhance MIDI's (originally poor!) timing resolution.  A
new HMIDI handle datatype will be necessary to address the sound device.  The
device will not have to be a MIDI, as the requests can be converted to other
devices' protocols in the driver once the common function interface has been
agreed.  The possibility of synthesizer being used as an input device should
also be considered.

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