[SqueakAudio] MidiShare Plug-in for Squeak

[John.Maloney@disney.com]

Stephen,

Thanks for looking into MIDIShare! It sounds great if they can solve
the problems of OS9 support and USB support. Otherwise, perhaps we should
stick to OMS as the underlying transport on the Mac. We could still use
MIDIShare on other platforms, although that means two variants of the
code to maintain.

If we can really create a cross-platform MIDI Prim Plugin source file,
then we can probably fold it into the Squeak baseline and have Ian and
Andreas just include it in their make files. I wouldn't want to burden
them excessively, however, so it would be great if we could package it
into just one or two source and header files.

Are there other problems with MIDIShare on the Mac (other than lack
of OS 9 and USB support)? Does it perform well enough?

	-- John


At 2:56 PM -0800 2/7/00, Stephen Travis Pope wrote:
>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?