Rs-232 vs MIDI

[Christopher_List at Sonymusic.Com]

>> Actually, MIDI is RS-232 with a different physical medium (in this case,
 a isolated current loop).
>> My thinking was PC centric (forgive me. I was in the PC business too
long).
>> MIDI means MPU-401
>> programming, which with DirectX and JAVA, the API level is probably
easier than in my realm of thinking.
>>
>> Also, I like my little Toshiba laptop and I was sort
>> of thinking of using that to show patch data, etc.
>
> You can actually go even higher - use an app like SoundDiver to build a
programming "environment".

The MS-Windows SDK has plenty of relatively simple APIs for both MIDI and
serial port programming.

In fact, I'd be psyched to work on programming an "environment" for this
from scratch in VisialC++, (the new version of which has a pretty
sophisticated suite of "Porting to Mac" utilities)....

So Paul, if you need someone to do this kind of stuff (or even someone to
just lend a hand) let me know...

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