BeatMaster PC-MIDI Sequencer
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This page is provided to give information and answers to questions from you lot,
the good people of the Internet.
Resources
Quite a lot of research went into producing BeatMaster. The following titles proved
to be particularly invaluable sources of information on PC system architecture.
- The DOS Programmers Reference - Dettmann, Kyle, Johnson (Que)
- The MS-DOS Encyclopedia - Various contributors (Microsoft Press)
- The Programmer's PC Sourcebook - Thom Hogan (Microsoft Press)
- Assembly Language Programming for the IBM Personal Computer - David Bradley (Prentice-Hall)
The Harmony Central
website is a site dedicated to music and musicians and was
the source for information about the MIDI specification, PC sound-cards and other
MIDI-music related stuff.
The Heart of BeatMaster
The heart of a sequencer, the 'engine' that drives it along, is its clock.
This page shows the C code that BeatMaster uses to intercept and modify the
operation of the PC timer-tick interrupt.
Q&A - Synchronization
A question and answer about MIDI ports, timer-interrupts and note scheduling.
Any comments, questions or suggestions about BeatMaster?
Eamonn Martin is at e.martin@gold.ac.uk
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