Q: about Midi software on A1000/A500 Amiga's

[Matt_H]

Did you try the MIDI datatype? I've had good luck with that on my 4000T and under WinUAE.

DeluxeMusic 2.0 should be able to open MIDI files directly.

[Matt_H]

That's what the MIDI datatype does - plays through a CAMD device. I assume your MIDI box is hooked up to the serial port, but did you remember to use CAMD's MidiPrefs to enable it?

I'm not aware of any way of playing MIDI through Paula, other than GMPlay, which is incompatible with CAMD stuff.

[Matt_H]

A CAMD setup should consist of camd.library, realtime.library, Devs:MIDI, and MidiPorts.

Create the directory Devs:MIDI (no problem if it's empty). Drag MidiPorts to Sys:Prefs and run it. Move the internal serial driver to the enable column, save, and you should be all set.

Open a MIDI file with multiview and it should use your MIDI box for playback.

[Matt_H]

Great! Glad you're operational.

I never adjusted the serial port prefs. Don't know if I should have. Matching what the external box expects probably wouldn't hurt.

There are plenty of MIDI players (just browse aminet mus/midi or search for midi or camd), but I haven't found one that I like other than the straightforward simplicity of Multiview and the MIDI datatype. There's also, as I said, DMusic 2.

Opening a file directly in B&P is probably possible, but I haven't figured out how. Maybe if I get around to reading the manual...

[Matt_H]

I couldn't find those tools either.

DMusic is legally available, however.

[Matt_H]

Okay, so I downloaded and installed Deluxe Music 2.0, but cannot get the MIDI function to work. Set it to 'active', but no sound. Is there a midi.device I'm missing that needs to be put in the Devs:Midi drawer? I notice when you install DM, it asks what kind of Midi device you have out of ONLY 2 choices. I've selected both and they both drop icons in Devs:Midi, but neither work.

My Midi device is a ECE box hooked through the serial port...

You also need to set your instruments to a MIDI channel under "Set Instrument...", which I think is a separate window from the "MIDI Active" checkbox.

Think of Devs:Midi like Devs:Monitors or Devs:AHI. The contents don't do anything unless the correct hardware is present. So if I pull my CV3D card out of the machine, my CVision3D driver will still be "running", but as far as the screenmode database is concerned, it's not there.

There is no midi.device, just MIDI devices that go in Devs:Midi. If your box connects to the serial port, use the built-in serial driver. The Checkpoint and OneStopMusicShop drivers are analogous to CVision3D and Delfina.audio - if you don't have the hardware, they don't do anything.