MidiShare Install notes, Windows
Nick Didkovsky, updated 9/03
Updated 2005-04-08 for MidiShare 1.89

WinXP MidiShare Installation Notes 2005-04-08

Visit http://midishare.sourceforge.net/

Click download link

midishare-win32 row in table, click "download"

Click Download midishare-1.89-win32.zip

Downloaded and Unzipped

FIRST
Run msDrivers and assign a slot for every input and every output device you want to access with MIDIShare

I ran msDrivers.exe, & it showed my PreSonus FIREPOD MIDI
Clicked on top left square, selected PreSonus FIREPOD Midi under Input Slot and selected PreSonus FIREPOD Midi under Output Slots
Clicked on next square, selected PreSonus FIREPOD Midi under Input Slot selected Microsoft GS Wavetable under OutputSlots
Exit

Noted that the file msMMSystem.ini refreshed in my folder upon exiting msDrivers.exe. 
Contents:
[Input Slots]
PreSonus FIREPOD MIDI In=0 1 
[Output Slots]
Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth=1 
PreSonus FIREPOD MIDI Out=0 
My install notes follow, which might save you some time (these comment 
complement, they do not supercede, the install docs)


TEST with msControl32

SECOND
Copy all 4 .ini and all 4 .dll files to C:\WINDOWS
msWANDriver.ini, msMMSystem.ini, msLANDriver.ini, midishare.ini
msWANDriver.dll, msMMSystem.dll, msLANDriver.dll, mshare32.dll

THIRD
The MidiShare Java stuff is no longer a separate download. I found it in midishare-1.89-win32\Developer\Java
Copy JPlayer.dll and JMidi.dll to C:\WINDOWS

LOCATE the grame.jar file. Put it somewhere handy.  Java applications that use MidiShare must have 
grame.jar in the CLASSPATH, for example:
java -cp PATHTO/jmsl.jar;PATHTO/grame.jar jmsltestsuite.TestMidiScheduling

For Eclipse, add External Jar to project and browse for grame.jar

FOURTH
TEST using SimpleMidiShareTest.java in the TestDev folder of the JMSL distribution.

Important: note that midi channel 1 in the source means midi chanel 2 on your outboard device.  
Use midi channel 0 in the Java source if you want to send to a device receiving on midi channel 1



- Nick Didkovsky 2/3/03 5:07PM
updated April 8 2005