Hi,

 

I need to send MIDI data from a sensor-capture controller box (the MIT Handyboard), which is already connected to my PC on serial port 1.

 

Under Irix, that used to be very simple; I would simply tell the computer that there was a MIDI device on serial port 1 and PD would read that. No such luck with Win32.

 

Short of buying an external MIDI interface, is there a way to trick the PC into thinking that there is a MIDI interface on a serial port, and just read from that?

 

I can imagine a more common scenario where one would connect two PCs together via the serial port, and trick both machine into thinking there are MIDI interfaces between them.

 

I would have thought that otherwise I could use the ‘serial’ object, but that only seems to handle output, not input

 

Any advice?

 

Thanks!

 

- martin