Looking for guidance (experience) with Midi Programming

[cappy2112]

I've found several VB projects which do various types of Midi I/O, but haven't found the information I'm looking for.

I want to send/receive Midi System Exclusive (sysex) data, which is much more timing critical than note messages. I'm not really interested in making a sequencer, or playing or recording midi files. I just want to be able to write the low-level code to do patch dumps via sysex.

Ideally, I'd like to create a DLL which can be loaded by a VB (or other) app.

If you've got this experience I would appreciate a reply, perhaps with some pointers to good resources. I've got a list of functions from the MSDN, but no really good tutorial on how to put these together do send sysx messages.

I will only be using Windows XP, and don't think the MCI functions are the way to go these days.


Thanks

[dglienna]

How about right in our backyard? Just noticed this (from google)

http://www.codeguru.com/vb/gen/vb_mu...cle.php/c1095/

[obiwanjacobi]

check out the midi dev group at google:
http://groups.google.com/group/mididev

and this code project article:
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/MIDIToolkit.asp

[dglienna]

Umm.

1) We all can Google

2) This is the VB6 forum, not C#

Welcome to the forums, and all, but you should observe before you decide that you're an expert. When you do, start posting answers.