Re: Wine sound discussion summary

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger@gmx.at> wrote:
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> Am 06.12.2009 um 23:21 schrieb Maarten Lankhorst:
>> I wouldn't be surprised if this still was the case, we could keep the midi interfaces around and just report 0 wave in/out devices for oss/coreaudio/alsaa once we complete wine7audio.drv.
> So you mean keeping the existing infrastructure around just for midi and have something entirely different for the rest of the audio features?
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> Apparently winmm is still the only way to do MIDI on Windows Vista, and if winmm uses wasapi and friends there must be some way to tell the devices to talk to MIDI instruments.
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I mainly wonder how Vista is able to sync MIDI with audio playback? I
would say that's an important feature e.g. be able to enable light
effects on a podium in sync with the music you play from your
computer.

Roderick

DirectMusic is the other way to work with MIDI I think.