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Your idea is really interesting and it was already asked sometime ago, as you pointed out.
Other users suggested COM/DCOM, but I immediately thought at the huge lot of work needed.
TCP/UDP socket is interesting, lightweight and much more configurable.
Anyway, adding such a feature now (I mean in VMS 1.x) is not feasible because its DLL is loaded into a client application (your MIDI player) upon request.
Opening a TCP socket this way will lead to issues with antivirus/malwares/security softwares of all kind.
Again, the DLL could be loaded by more than one player (even if not officially supported) so which one will own the listening port?
I already have the same issue with shortcut keys (i.e. CTRL+ALT+M to open the MIDI Mixer).
That said it could be an interesting feature to be added to version 2.x (see this thread for further details: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/forum/thread/222).
In 2.x the driver and the synth parts live in two distinct processes, so this feature could be expanded to let VMS be fully controlled externally, not just the mixer.
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