DOSBox DOS Emulator

Tracker: Feature Requests

5 Add CoreMIDI support for OSX - ID: 1480493

Last Update: Comment added ( qbix79 )

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DOSBox has a MIDI passthrough feature that allows it to
use an external synthesizer, such as the Roland MT-32,
from the host operating system. This feature is not
available to Mac OSX users because MIDI messages are
sent to the CoreAudio subsystem instead, which drives
an internal software synthesizer. I guess that MT-32
emulation is a possibility under this scenario, but it
removes the advantage to those of us who use the
authentic MT-32 hardware with OSX.

Submitted:

Peter McCombs ( pmccombs ) - 2006-05-02 15:49

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Closed

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None

Assigned:

Peter Veenstra

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Public

Comments ( 6 )

Date: 2007-12-12 19:45 Sender: qbix79 commited your patch
Date: 2007-09-04 22:57 Sender: jjamieson Okay anyways so I found your patch (under patches, duh) and it works like a charm. (I also have a Midiman, the 4x4, and an MT-32.) I wonder why it's not implemented in the main code tree? Seems like a pretty straight-forward patch.
Date: 2007-09-04 04:33 Sender: jjamieson Wow it's been awhile since you submit this patch and it's still not in the main line. I can build dosbox from source, but how do I obtain your patch? I've not really used sourceforge much.
Date: 2006-05-18 02:16 Sender: pmccombs Logged In: YES user_id=730704 I submitted my little patch for this feature.
Date: 2006-05-16 18:42 Sender: pmccombs Logged In: YES user_id=730704 Ok, this morning I tested a bit of code that I added that allows me to specify "coremidi" in the midi config section, and it will send the events to the core midi API instead of to the internal core audio synth. It appears to work just fine. I was able to send the events to either port A or port B on my MidiSport 2x2 USB interface, which routes to any attached external synth. Of course, "coreaudio" is still an option with this change. Once I've tested a bit more, I'll upload a patch for anyone who is interested.
Date: 2006-05-12 22:00 Sender: pmccombs Logged In: YES user_id=730704 I've started adding this little feature on my own, in a personal build, and I have made some progress. If it works properly, I'll submit a patch for the Dosbox team to review.

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Field	Old Value	Date	By
status_id	Open	2007-12-12 19:45	qbix79
assigned_to	nobody	2007-12-12 19:45	qbix79
close_date	-	2007-12-12 19:45	qbix79

DOSBox DOS Emulator

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