MIDI extensions (WIN32, Mac)?

[Brett g Porter]

"Richard Dobson" <rwd at cableinet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3A3FACEF.DAF77229 at cableinet.co.uk...
> Hello,
>
>
> I have just started looking at Python seriously, with a focus on music
> applications; e.g. algorithmic composition. Python seems to me to be
> idally suited as a first programming language for Music Technology
> students who have never done programming before. So far the net trawling
> I have done has failed to turn up any already-done extensions supporting
> MIDI i/o. I could probably code this myself at least for WIN32 if need
> be, but it is the sort of thing I feel sure somebody must already have
> done. Can anyone suggest anything? Or has it indeed not been done yet?
>
I'm doing some work on this, but the idea of getting anything approaching
usable timing has made me focus instead on writing MIDI files and using a
standalone sequencer for actual performance. MIDI timing under Win9x is bad
enough as it is -- the additional latencies of Python aren't going to
help...

It would be easy enough to wrap the Windows MIDI i/o calls, if they're not
already available through one of Mark Hammond's extensions...

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