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Hi Chuck, Check Mabry software on the web -- http://www.mabry.com/ . They offer a complete MIDI OCX (and VBX) custom control kit for VB (the MIDI Pack) which, in addition to MIDI I/O and standard MIDI file capability, even includes knobs, sliders, and pseudo-LED displays! You can download a trial version at their site. It is fully functional but brings up an annoying dialog box whenever you run a program containing a demo control. There is also an excellent book/CD combination by Paul Messick, called "Maximum MIDI", published by Manning. The URL is: http://www.manning.com/Messick/ . The author was Director of Engineering for Music Quest, where he developed MIDI interfaces and drivers. He is incredibly knowledgeable and uses the book to share what he has learned. This is definitely C++ oriented but contains loads of excellent explanatory material about timing and other low level MIDI I/O stuff in Windows, and comes with a dll (dynamic link library) that handles many MIDI functions, and which can be accessed with Visual Basic, although that is not mentioned in the book. The book includes well commented source code for the DLL and other programs that are on the CD. When you buy the book, you are eligible to partipate in an online forum in which the author is (or was -- I haven't checked into it for many months) an active participant. That is where I read that the dll can be used with VB. If you really want to understand how MIDI works on the Windows PC, this is definitely the book to read. There are a few older books that relate to DOS or the Atari ST. The Atari based one is actually a generally useful source of information about MIDI and MIDI programming. It contains Atari Basic source code for several useful programs, including a sequencer. With a bit of work, much of this could be ported to VB. It is "The Musician's Guide to MIDI", by Christian Braut, and is published by Sybex. Hope this helps. All the best, Howard At 03:39 PM 11/30/98 -0700, you wrote: >Hi to all! >I am looking to write some MIDI stuff in Visual Basic 5.0. >I have searched the help and www - can only find Multi-Media player >control, which does not let me get to the real midi data stream. > >I need a custom control (like the MSComm control) that lets me talk >to/from >MIDI devices already registered into the Win95 environment. >(like my MusicQuest 8-port-SE or soundblaster MIDI port.) >Any leads? >Thanks. >PS - any interested V.B. hackers out there want to talk MIDI code? email >me! >Chuck Joy - crs@usa.net > > ========================================================== Howard Harawitz howard@brooknorth.com ========================================================== Brooklyn North Software Works Inc. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Telephone: 1-902-423-0257 ========================================================== Check the Halifax Harbor Cam: http://www.brooknorth.com/camsite/