detect_midi_driver
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NAME
detect_midi_driver - Detects whether the specified MIDI sound device is available. Allegro game programming library.
SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h>
int detect_midi_driver(int driver_id);
DESCRIPTION
Detects whether the specified MIDI sound device is available. This function
must be called _before_ install_sound().
RETURN VALUE
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.
SEE ALSO
install_sound(3),
reserve_voices(3)