#MIDI programs
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Russ, I meant to imply that a serious or useful MIDI program takes so much more
effort in software than worrying about the presence of a built-in MIDI port.
In fact, I think a good MIDI implementation requires a bit of smart hardware,
like an MPU-401, or one of the new Yamaha chips. Otherwise, you have to do a
lot of smart stuff in software, in your MIDI interrupt driver, and it comes to
a lot of overhead. I am one of the authors of Sight & Sound Music Software's
MIDI music editor, called Ensemble, for the IBM-PC and Roland MPU-401. From
what I've heard, there isn't a whole lot of MIDI software out for the Atari ST.
If you've seen some, please tell me more about it.