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|  | 2 layout: post | 
|  | 3 author: Paper | 
|  | 4 title: 'The Open Music System, part 0 - preface' | 
|  | 5 nowplaying: 'Midnight Star - Midas Touch (Hell Interface remix)' | 
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|  | 7 <span> | 
|  | 8 	The primary method of organizing (and interacting with) MIDI devices | 
|  | 9 	on Mac OS 9 is through the Open Music System, developed by Opcode. | 
|  | 10 	However, OMS in itself isn't very "open" at all, as are most | 
|  | 11 	standards for music software. Steinberg's ASIO and VST | 
|  | 12 	are prime examples of this phenomena. | 
|  | 13 </span> | 
|  | 14 <br><br> | 
|  | 15 <span> | 
|  | 16 	In this series of blog posts I will be digging into how applications | 
|  | 17 	interact with the OMS system extension, in an effort to allow other | 
|  | 18 	programs to (legally) interact with OMS without using the proprietary | 
|  | 19 	OMS SDK. | 
|  | 20 </span> | 
|  | 21 <br><br> | 
|  | 22 <span> | 
|  | 23 	Find the next post in this series | 
|  | 24 	<a class="prettylink" href="oms-part-1.html">here</a>. | 
|  | 25 </span> |