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title: 'The Open Music System, part 0 - preface'
nowplaying: 'Midnight Star - Midas Touch (Hell Interface remix)'
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	The primary method of organizing (and interacting with) MIDI devices
	on Mac OS 9 is through the Open Music System, developed by Opcode.
	However, OMS in itself isn't very "open" at all, as are most
	standards for music software. Steinberg's ASIO and VST
	are prime examples of this phenomena.
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	In this series of blog posts I will be digging into how applications
	interact with the OMS system extension, in an effort to allow other
	programs to (legally) interact with OMS without using the proprietary
	OMS SDK.
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	Find the next post in this series
	<a class="prettylink" href="oms-part-1.html">here</a>.
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