Ecomposer - Turn your kepboard into a synthesiser

Ecomposer is an application which will turn your keyboard into a synthesizer with 255 instruments. It is a very good code example of using MIDI in your aplication. It also shows how you can use DirectX api for input called DirectInput in your applications. you can record and playback the music. save the music in a file. record for 16 channels sperately and play back all of them together. with each channel having a different instrument. Besides all this it also uses genetic algorithms to create new music based on user created music. It is a good start to learn how genetic algorithms work.