
MIDI and third party VB Questions...
I am planning on making some computer programmers / patch bank
editors for some synthesizers of mine... Visual Basic 4 probably will be
my language of choice, due to the large number of third party utilities
it has and the ease of making simple interfaces... What I need, though,
is recommendations on third party utilities for:
- Interfacing the MIDI port (any MIDI device in Windows it should be
able to do... something that directly accesses the MPU-401 is NOT what
I'm looking for...)
- Routines for certain graphical interfaces. A nice slider routine would
help a lot; not required but nice would be a routine that would display
a matrix grid well, and a routine that graphically displays envelopes. I
think I can use the VB tools for the rest...
The recommended tools, FYI, should be free, since I'm planning on making
these editors available for free. (:
Incidentally, the synths I'm planning on making tools for (in the order
that I'm tackling them) is the Oberheim Matrix 1000, the Roland D-50,
the Yamaha DX27/100, and the Korg X5.
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Chad Gould aka Soundwave |-X5/D50/DX27S/Juno106/TX16W/BE5-|
http://www.*-*-*.com/ ; |Make Happy the Harmonica Happy!!|
"As you raise the (resonance) knob, certain harmonics are emphasized and the
created sound will become... more electronic in nature" - Juno 106 manual