Windows programming challenges

To: internet:tuning@onelist.com
Date: 03-07-99

In Tuning Digest 81, Graham Breed wrote:

> I am interested in getting my MIDI Relay program working with adaptive
> tunings. One reason it doesn't yet is that I'm finding myself doing
> things in fixed tunings that a dynamic algorithm would stomp all over.
> I'll be glad to assist anyone working on this sort of thing. I can
> explain how to get MIDI working in Windows if nothing else.

Talk about Murphy! I really NEEDED help just a couple of months ago,
when I first tried to write programs to perform MIDI I/O on a PC (I had
done it on a NeXT for some time, but of course the calls are completely
different!). It would run fine, then blow sky-high. I FINALLY realized
I needed to compile /MT to get the multi-threaded libraries, because I
was allocating memory both in the callback routine and the main loop.

But I STILL need help on a related subject: the low-level programming
needed to record and play back .wav files. I'm especially interested in
getting digital input from an audio CD, so that I can manipulate the
data and play it in real-time. Does anybody know how to do this?

(I'm running Microsoft Developer Studio 4.0, 32-bit).

JdL