detect_midi_driver

Detects whether the specified MIDI sound device is available.

Description

int detect_midi_driver(int driver_id);
Detects whether the specified MIDI sound device is available. This function must be called _before_ install_sound().
Returns the maximum number of voices that the driver can provide, or zero if the hardware is not present.

There are two special-case return values that you should watch out for: if this function returns -1 it is a note-stealing driver (eg. DIGMID) that shares voices with the current digital sound driver, and if it returns 0xFFFF it is an external device like an MPU-401 where there is no way to determine how many voices are available.

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