From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,441ab6d6abb8b3af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-12 07:21:57 PST Reply-To: "aleistad" From: "aleistad" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3f88cb3d$1@news.broadpark.no> Subject: Re: Ada and MidiShare Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:16:26 +0200 Organization: The universe X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 233.80-202-161.nextgentel.com X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 233.80-202-161.nextgentel.com Message-ID: <3f89641d$3@news.broadpark.no> X-Trace: news.broadpark.no 1065968669 233.80-202-161.nextgentel.com (12 Oct 2003 16:24:29 +0200) Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp1.phx1.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!news.broadpark.no Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:736 Date: 2003-10-12T16:16:26+02:00 List-Id: "Stephane Richard" wrote in message news:N2aib.3114$zw4.152@nwrdny01.gnilink.net... > > Hi Are (and that friend of yours too :-) welcome aboard. Thank you! > I'm also working on a MIDI project using ada so perhaps we can talk you and > I. > > Since you have experience in C/C++ I can't help but suggest you go to my > website (http://www.adaworld.com), in the "Learning Center" under "Free > Books" and grab yourself a copy a copy of the pdf file called Ada Distilled > which teaches ada to namely C++ programmers. You might find it invaluable. > -- > St�phane Richard > "Ada World" Webmaster > http://www.adaworld.com I've already been at your excellent site and picked up Ada Distilled. In fact, after my Ada web searches, I have ended up with several tutorials and even a few full books. It is no shortage of learning material on the web it seems. I'll pick up a printed book or two as well; there's no substitute for paper :) Can you possibly tell a little bit about how you acheive MIDI I/O, and any other useful bits for MIDI applications? Do you also deal with sound in your project? What components are you using, and what are your development and target platforms? Having thought more about it, MidiShare may be a bit of an overkill - it's just that i may be the easiest way to get MIDI going (for me). Ideally I'd like the simplest of MIDI I/O, again just a buffered raw stream would do, and then any extra functionality (a la MidiShare) can be done in Ada. Regards, Are --