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blog: add (unfinished) series on OMS I'll update this as I do more research into the inner workings of OMS. It's much more interesting (and more convoluted) than ASIO is unfortunately, but it means the blog posts will probably be more interesting
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4 title: 'The Open Music System, part 0 - preface'
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5 nowplaying: 'Midnight Star - Midas Touch (Hell Interface remix)'
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8 The primary method of organizing (and interacting with) MIDI devices
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9 on Mac OS 9 is through the Open Music System, developed by Opcode.
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10 However, OMS in itself isn't very "open" at all, as are most
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11 standards for music software. Steinberg's ASIO and VST
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12 are prime examples of this phenomena.
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16 In this series of blog posts I will be digging into how applications
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17 interact with the OMS system extension, in an effort to allow other
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18 programs to (legally) interact with OMS without using the proprietary
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19 OMS SDK.
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23 Find the next post in this series
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24 <a class="prettylink" href="oms-part-1.html">here</a>.
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