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From: eric@cse.ucsc.edu (Eric Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: /dev/midi
Date: 7 Aug 1996 14:59:13 -0700
Organization: Image Processing & Multimedia Lab (UC Santa Cruz)
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Can anyone tell me what /dev/midi does and how it can be used?

Is it an interface to external MIDI instruments?  Or, is it a
virtual MIDI instrument that uses the DSP capability of certain
soundcards to play MIDI commands (perhaps explaining the mysterious
sbmidi device).  Is it something entirely different?

Has anyone used tclmidi, a third-party TCL based MIDI editor and player
under BSD/OS 2.1 (tclmidi claims to run under BSD/OS 2.x) using this device?

--Eric