RE: Enabling MIDI devices in audio demos

Jussi,



Well, in this group we're probably all anxiously waiting for the Device API
WG ( http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/ ) finish their work, so that we would have
standard, cross-browser API to get data from external soundcards, MIDI
devices, web cameras (ooh, theremin) etc. I don't know what's exactly their
progress, but let's hope there's progress. ;) 

I took a look at that WG page and I don't see any indication that they are
working on APIs that will handle MIDI I/O... but I'm not a programmer
myself, so maybe I wouldn't recognize such a thing unless it said "MIDI" on
it... do you know that they are working on MIDI, or are you saying you just
hope so?
 
Thanks,
 
- TW
 
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Hi Jussi,
 
Can you explain this a little more? 
Namely, what you meant by "waiting for <device> support"... is someone
actually working on that somewhere?
Also, where does one get 'audiolib.js' if one wants to do this kind of
thing?
 
Thanks,
 
Tom White
MMA
 
>>>> ....progress in MIDI device -> browser communication research with the
XG.  
>>>>.... all my audio demos can now be connected to external MIDI devices
via Java while we wait for the <device> support to be able to do the same. 
>>>> ... should work with both APIs, due to the support from my audiolib.js
).