Comments on: Hobnox Java MIDI SPI for OS X

By: joa

joa — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:44:11 +0000

That is correct, we have the SPI written for the Mac and it works very well. I would love to open-source it but the code does not belong to me. It is technically Hobnox who owns the code so I can not make this decision.

Writing an SPI for the Mac is really simple. It should not take you too long if you are more familiar with Java and JNI. There are also much simpler solutions to the SPI instead of the one I choose. You could for instance buffer all data in the native library and query for that data from the Java side. But I thought it is much more elegant to have a callback from C to Java.

By: sixman9

sixman9 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:58:17 +0000

Joa,
Sorry man, I thought you were asking about SPI availability. It sounds like you have an SPI for Mac written, are you planing on distributing this, open source?

Cheers

Rich

By: joa

joa — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:15:57 +0000

Yes, but the Mandolane Midi SPI is not free. You have to buy it after a trail period.

By: sixman9

sixman9 — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:44:35 +0000

Although a free alternative is always good, this has already been done at http://www.mandolane.co.uk/swMandoMidi.html . Its a Java to SPI provider.

Cheers

Rich