How to generate MIDI through a web interface

Hi,

I sent out this question a while ago, but didn't receive any responses.  I 
was wondering wether anybody has some tips on how to start finding out on 
how to generate MIDI through a web interface?  (Also see my original message 
below.)

Thanks so much.

- Erik

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Hi everyone,

Being a newbie to this list, I am very excited to have just found out about 
MIDI-Perl!  Here's what I would like to do -- and if anyone of you has 
experience with this, or knows where I can find more information, then I'd 
love to get some tips -->

Based on data retrieved through a web interface, I would like to load MIDI 
as the background sound in a hidden frame, where the MIDI is generated 
through a call to a Perl script.  So, I am looking to do something along the 
lines of:

<BGSOUND SRC="cgi-bin/play-midi.pl?midistring">

where 'midistring' is a string that contains the information to feed into 
the Perl script, which will then translate that into parameters for 
MIDI-Perl.

I am very eager to start figuring out the exact details of how to do this, 
but if anyone of you already knows that this will never work for some 
reason, then I want to hear that of course.  Do you know where I might be 
able to find more information on this web-midi-interface construction that I 
want to work out?

Thanks so much for any help,

- Erik

(In case you're wondering what I need this for: I have a web site that gives 
you chords and scales for Guitar and Piano, and I would like to add the 
functionality of hearing any selection as well: http://www.looknohands.com/ 
)





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