Old 04-24-2008, 01:51 PM   #1
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This might be a little off topic since it is not specifically Reaper related, but I figure people here might know. I have an idea for an application that uses MIDI to talk to other running applications (such as Reaper, for instance). I figured there must be some easy way to create a virtual midi device in Windows that could be used to pipe midi back and forth between applications. My search isn't really bearing much fruit, though. I honestly thought the Windows Media API must allow this, but it appears I was wrong about that.

Does anyone know of a good, free api out there that will let me do this?

There is ReWire, but Propellerhead won't tell me the protocol unless I officially create a company. Which might happen, but hasn't yet as any kind of legally defined entity.

There are a few little utility apps out there that do this, but they're not free and I'd rather not use a third app as a go between.

So, short of writing my own WDM kernel mode driver, or getting my hands on some Rewire code, what are my options?

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Old 04-24-2008, 05:37 PM   #2
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Chris -

I've looked into this as well.

I've not yet been able to find anything. I talked to one of the dev's at Microsoft, and he wasn't aware of any solution other than writing a WDM driver, either
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Thanks for the heads-up on Re-Wire, though.

Maybe we can pool our info.

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Maybe I am misunderstanding - isn't MidiYoke exactly what you are talkng about?

Or there is one other one... ummm Hubis Midi Loopback device.

Both of these can be used to pipe midi around between applications in windows.
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Maybe I am misunderstanding - isn't MidiYoke exactly what you are talkng about?

Or there is one other one... ummm Hubis Midi Loopback device.

Both of these can be used to pipe midi around between applications in windows.
Yeah, that's what I want. I guess I was hoping for a cool API level way to do it rather than making folks install something else, but that will do the trick. I did poke around in the WDK (Windows Driver Kit) yesterday some, but this is likely more sensible than trying to roll my own.

Maybe at some point I can get my hands on the ReWire spec and be able to do true app to app without a kernel driver intermediary, but this will do for now. Especially if I don't have to write it.

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Maybe I am misunderstanding - isn't MidiYoke exactly what you are talkng about?

Or there is one other one... ummm Hubis Midi Loopback device.

Both of these can be used to pipe midi around between applications in windows.
That won't work for my particular needs. I need to programatically send MIDI.

Might work for spacelabstudio, though.
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I haven't time to look right now, but I rediscovered an old page that might have what we're looking for.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-video/

There's a number of promising looking articles here.

I'll re-post if I see exactly what we need.
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