Playing notes with MIDI -- midiOutShortMsg(...) in winmm.dll

[coderx]

I am attempting to build a piece of software which will replicate a guitar's
notes. The major problem I have is sending the message to the midi output
device which has the correct instrument and note to play. The midi people
want like 50 bucks for a reference, and as this will be a personal use type
application, I can't see spending the money on it. If anyone has a nice
enumerated list of the ID's for the instruments and notes/chords, that would
be wonderful. I am writing this in Visual Basic(.net), but an example or
two in C or C++ or even Java or some other language which uses the windows
API would be great.

Thanks In Advance,
--cx.

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Maybe this will help.
http://www.franklins.net/dotnet/CarlsMIDITools.zip

Ken
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I am attempting to build a piece of software which will replicate a guitar's
notes. The major problem I have is sending the message to the midi output
device which has the correct instrument and note to play. The midi people
want like 50 bucks for a reference, and as this will be a personal use type
application, I can't see spending the money on it. If anyone has a nice
enumerated list of the ID's for the instruments and notes/chords, that would
be wonderful. I am writing this in Visual Basic(.net), but an example or
two in C or C++ or even Java or some other language which uses the windows
API would be great.

Thanks In Advance,
--cx.

[Larry Serflaten]

"Ken Tucker [MVP]" <vb***@bellsouth.net> wrote

Maybe this will help.
http://www.franklins.net/dotnet/CarlsMIDITools.zip

Thanks for the link. I had heard mention of it on DotNet Rocks,
but I did never find it when I went looking....

LFS