What is the best way to program MIDI for Windows?

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Published on 2010-04-06T00:17:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 0:23 UTC
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I am looking to write a small program that receives input from an external device and then sends MIDI signals to any MIDI compatible software. What is the best way, from the MIDI perspective, to go about this? Are there any specific libraries I should look into?

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