hail monks,

well, i must say, you monks were so much help on my last post, i must tap some more of this bottomless knowledge...

OK, i am playing around with the Win32::MIDI module ( on a win32 machine ) and i wanted to know if it were possible to play a chord with this module? basically a snippet of the example is as follows: 
my $midi_obj = Win32::MIDI->new();

    # print number of available (writing) devices
    
print $midi_obj->numDevices() . "\n";

    # open a device

$midi_obj->openDevice(0);

    # set default channel

$midi_obj->cur_channel(1);

    # play a note by absolute value (numeric)
    # middle C - 60
    # note,dur,velocity
    
$midi_obj->play_note(60,2.5,127) || print $midi_obj->error() . "\n" an
+d $midi_obj->reset_error();

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there are some neat things you can do with this module, but i couldnt seem to find anything on playing chords... i was thinking maybe if you had two channels open each note would play on the each channel simultaneously, but that did not work... i dont know if this module is just not built to play chords, or what? but if you monks can suggest another module that can be used on win32 for chords, i would be much obliged.

thanks alot for the help!

In reply to playing chords with MIDI modules... by primus

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