How do a make my own MIDI program?

Question

I know how to program

What I don't know is how to access the midi part of the sound card

Answer 1

EDIT -

Have you used the Windows API functions before?

If you haven't done so already, I recommend that you download the Windows R2 Platform SDK from Microsoft's web site because you'll need a reference on the MIDI functions.  The information is also on Microsoft's web site in the MSDN section, but it's faster to navigate through the information if you have the help files on your computer.

There are no programming tutorials for MIDI programming in the SDK, but you should be able to figure out how to use the functions by yourself.  Microsoft's web site may also have some example code.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...

If you just want to play MIDI files, then you can use the MCI functions like mciSendString() and mciSendCommand().

If you're using the Microsoft MFC framework, then you'll have to look through the MFC function reference to find which multimedia classes are available.  (I don't program with MFC.)

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Uh, what programming language can you program with, and for which operating system?