I am trying to use the FTDI232BM USB to serial chip in a MIDI application.
The FT232BM chip comes with a WDM usb driver and API (FT_Write(lngHandle,
strWriteBuffer, LENGTH_MESSAGE, lngBytesWritten))that I can use to send midi
data to the chip and it will convert to MIDI serial output. I would like to
use the windows MIDI API functions like IRET =
midiOutShortMsg(MIDI_OUT_HANDLE, MIDIMSG).
My question is what do I have to do to have the FT232BM chip recognized as a
MIDI device? Why do I want it to be recognized as a MIDI device when I can
already send midi data to it? So that CAKEWALK and other musical
applications can use it directly. Any guidance is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Bob Lang