Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

I know that the guys are very busy at emu.  but it would be super 
cool if they had an editor for the command stations.  I wonder if 
that's what E5 is supposed to be.  Whatever happened to e5 anyway??


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "sonofblagger" <sonofblagger@y...> wrote:
> The Java SDK doesn't care about MIDI communication. You need to 
write 
> your own native dll or look out for some 3rd party MIDI toolkit, 
> which are available on the net (here's one for example: 
> http://www.mcnabb.com/software/fantasia/). But they will probably 
use 
> their own native dlls for this, so platform independancy depends 
on 
> the support from the toolkit-supplier.
> 
> Holger
> 
> 
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Andre Lewis" <andrel@s...> wrote:
> > Now it all comes clear, I understand it.  The Java spec doesn't 
> have any way to
> > read in events from a midi port!  Yikes.  No way to get two way 
> communications
> > between them.  I mean I am looking into this, but it seams like 
> EMU's strategy
> > is to use Java for their software.  No way for them to fix this 
> until people
> > stop trying to turn Java into a game development platform and 
make 
> it less
> > gamecentric...!  Yipes.
> > 
> > Unless of course I am missing something, I would love to have 
> someone show me
> > how to recieve realtime messages from an external keyboard via 
Java 
> and
> > Midi....,
> > Anyone?
> > 
> > Bueller?
> > 
> > Andre Lewis