[Pythonmac-SIG] Mac, MIDI and sysex -- Tkinter question

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl
Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:31:42 +0200


Bill,
I set out to write a mac midi module three times (I already have an
SGI midi module, and a couple of modules to parse and interpret
midifiles, use the locator to find them), but each time I gave up. The 
quicktime midi interface is just plain broken, because you have to do
all your own timing. The other stuff like OMS is just as bad, as far
as I understand it.

What I _think_ should be done is to use a separate thread (or some
sort of interrupt-driven scheme?) to handle timing, write a C wrapper
around that that just accepts an array of midi events and sends them
out with the correct timing and a Python wrapper around that. I'd be
more than willing to help with advise, but I have absolutely no time
to spend on implementing this, unfortunately:-(
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