[sdiy] DIY MIDI Ctrl software WAS: [AH] reKon audio: New JUNO-106 reportedly works with MKS-7

[David Moylan]

Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
> "MTG" <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com> wrote:
>> <hijacked from AH>
>>
>> If anyone has more leads on how to write your own soft-control-surface 
>> (editor/librarian) I would love to read up.  I can program OK in C/C++ on 
>> Wintel and would love to make a visual editor for a project. I can craft an 
>> ugly user interface in Borland CBuilder or Delphi (maybe also MS VisualC) 
>> but now I stumble at the MIDI interface part. I don't know how to 
>> send/receive over the available MIDI channel.
>>
>> There must be some awesome tools out there somewhere. The editors I see are 
>> beautiful and I can't image all these developers are mega-visual artists. 
>> The knbos, LEDs, etc are all amazing looking...
>>
>> GB
> 
> Me too.  I've written an aleatoric sequencer and several patch editors that use MIDI
> protocol, but connect to my synths over a standard COM port.  While this works for the
> synths I design, it won't work for MIDI only synths.  (my synths will receive on either
> their MIDI inputs or TTY inputs).  I would love to know how to use VB.NET (I can read C#,
> so that is helpful too) to open and send to a MIDI port.
> 
> 
> -- ScottG

Have you considered Java?  I did some dsp experiments in Java and from 
what I recall, receiving Midi was fairly easy.  I'm sure sending would 
be similar.  It should in theory be more portable as well.

Dave