I believe there's a YAMAHA MIDI driver for win32 that communicates

through the COM port.

I don't know any specifics, but take a look at www.ucapps.de on

the COM Port extension to the MBHP, MIDIbox, MIDIBox64. That's where I heard it mentioned...

. . David McCallum . Music wants to be free . http://mentalfloss.ca/sintheta/ .

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Martin Dupras wrote:

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

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.

Ah, the beauty of *nix...

No experience but I'd try to abuse drivers from Roland, Yamaha, Korg,... Some of their gear (keyboards, digital mixers, sound modules) has a "to host" serial interface for "midi without midi port".

Johannes Taelman