[tpm] Playing MIDI notes using Perl?

[Kartik Thakore]

I will see if I can find that script before thusday

Kartik Thakore

On 22-Sep-09, at 5:38 PM, Abuzar Chaudhary <abuzarchaudhary at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> Hi Kartik,
>
> Thanks, I didn't know you could do MIDI through SDL. Yes, I'd be  
> into trying it out.
>
> Thanks,
> Abuzar
>
> --- On Thu, 9/17/09, Kartik Thakore <thakore.kartik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Kartik Thakore <thakore.kartik at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [tpm] Playing MIDI notes using Perl?
>> To: "abuzar at abuzar.com" <abuzar at abuzar.com>, "tpm at to.pm.org" <tpm at to.pm.org 
>> >
>> Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 8:21 AM
>> You can do this with SDL perl. I have
>> script example. Let me find it and get it for you
>>
>> Kartik Thakore
>>
>> On 15-Sep-09, at 11:14 AM, Abuzar Chaudhary <abuzarchaudhary at yahoo.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to play MIDI notes using Perl on
>> Windows?
>>>
>>> I'm using Win32API::MIDI and in the example, they're
>> using these hex codes to turn notes on and off:
>>> $mo->ShortMsg(0x00403C90)
>>> $mo->ShortMsg(0x00003C90)
>>>
>>> These hex codes, where can I find a spec for
>> them?  I've been googling and going through the
>> microsoft website for hours (which the perldoc recommends),
>> but I can't find anything.
>>>
>>> All I want to do is play music notes.  Is that
>> too much to ask for? With Commodore, it was really
>> easy.  Like this:
>>>
>>> play "CDEFGAB"
>>>
>>> How difficult can this be?! As time goes by,
>> programming gets worse :(
>>>
>>> Abuzar
>>>
>>> p.s. Please, no elitism, like I should be using Linux
>> instead, or I'm not RTFM, or I'm too dumb (I already know
>> that).  Thanks.
>>>
>>>
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