I agree with both of your observations.

About a raw MIDI input, that would simplify writing things like CsoundVST (which currently has to have a dummy MIDI driver). 

One way of doing this is for incoming MIDI channel NOTE ON events to schedule a regular score event with an indefinite duration, and the matching incoming MIDI channel NOTE OFF or NOTE ON with velocity 0 would turn off the instrument instance that was scheduled for that NOTE ON in such a way as to allow the envelopes to finish releasing. This would simplify the use of the same instrument definitions for both real-time and off-line performance.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: jpff 
>Sent: Mar 6, 2008 6:22 AM
>To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Cs-dev] Possible API extension
>
>Talking to Rory at LAC2008 I was convinced that we need an API
>operation to insert a MIDI event into the Csound MIDI controller.  I
>have not looked too closely yet, but i think there are PortMIDI
>operation to do this, but the host program may need to have a simple
>way of running MIDI, especially so the GUI stuff can move out of the
>base code.
>  Related, but I was impressed with Cabbage, and am looking at it as a
>way to do what we said we wanted at LAC last year.
>==John ffitch
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