(Resending to list, having some email issues…) From: ext Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > OK, but - sending low-level MIDI commands in binary form is extremely > unlikely to be the most effective way to get music out of your sound card. > While in the past, games or audio software may have used MIDI rendered by an > internal soundcard, my > understanding is that nowadways this is almost never done. MIDI is mainly > used for truly external outputs and inputs.
I believe you're referring to the general MIDI built-in synthesizer common in sound cards, which is of course there but not what I'm referring to :) You can use MIDI to control pure-software synthesizers that are connected via CoreMIDI (or other OS-specific interfaces), or to control specialized pure-software programs like Logic or Cubase. I would say that using MIDI in a mainstream way requires either specialized hardware or specialized software, though it could potentially be used completely with WebAudio to create something like a software synthesizer. Still I would have to agree that this is an obscure API, and in general I would prefer to maybe find a common place outside of the webkit project to implement random navigator.foobar APIs and have them work on top of some WebKit public APIs.
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