[SqueakAudio] MidiShare Plug-in for Squeak

[Stephen Travis Pope]

I up-loaded MIDIShare this weekend and looked into the port of the Siren
plug-in-- not really all that hard, and we'd get portability for free. We'd
still need someone to compile the plug-ins for Windows and Linux -- are
there compiler-savvy readers for these platforms.

The bad news is that MIDIShare for the Mac kinda doesn't work all that well.
The current version does not support MacOS 9 (but I got an alpha-test
version from Stephane at Grame that does). The larger problem is that it
does not support MIDI devices on USB, so that you still have to use OMS;
Grame has a "gateway" library so that MIDIShare and OMS can collaborate, but
this more or less defeats the purpose of moving to MIDIShare in the first
place. (We were trying to get a simpler and more stable MIDI framework than
OMS.)

I'll move ahead with the port, but in no rush since I don't want to get
involved in changing all my OMS setups to interface with the MIDIShare
gateway.

Yann et al, when's the new MIDIShare with OMS-less USB support for MacOS 9
supposed to be released?

-- 
stp

Stephen Travis Pope
http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~stp