Folks,
There has been recent discussion about using multiple MIDI ports over in the XMPlay MIDI plugin thread to allow the usage of more than 16 MIDI channels (e.g. 2 MIDI ports = 32 MIDI channels; 16 MIDI channels on each MIDI port).
Does anyone know of a MIDI player (preferably freeware) that normally supports this when using standard MIDI devices? I have a Sound Blaster live, which supports two hardware MIDI ports ("Synth A" and "Synth B"), as well as the usual SBLive Software Sythnesizer, but have yet to find a MIDI player that could access more than one MIDI port (for the MIDI files that support it).
How about a plugin for the WinDoZe Media Player, anyone heard of something like this (WMP only supports MIDI playback through the current active MIDI device, in the Windows' "Sounds and Audio Devices Properties" control panel applet)?
I own an extremely old version of the (long-since gone) WinJammer MIDI sequencer, which includes the "WinJammer Player" that supports this, but the WJ Player has a few issues with Windows XP. (as many of you know) I also use my old version of Cakewalk Pro v3.01, and it too can use multiple MIDI ports.
In other words, which ever MIDI player (or WMP plugin) that supports this would need a MIDI device setup screen/menu of sorts, where you could select the MIDI devices for port 1/2/3/etc...