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Hello,Is there a high-precision timer API in MacOS like that Windows Multimedia Timers provide? I need execute my callback exactly every 1 ms, so I need an API allowing to fire events with this resolution. I can't find appropriate API for this. Ideally I want to use C++.As far as I know timers with such small intervals are platform-specific, so I suppose MacOS has it.There are a lot of answers on the web regarding accurate time measurements. But I need accurate timer.

I'm trying to write simple loopback virtual MIDI port on macOS using CoreMIDI in C. First of all, it seems I can't understand all the CoreMIDI terminology. Look please at the following picture: ┌─────────────┐ │ MIDI DEVICE │ │ │ └─OUT──────IN─┘ ↓ ↑ event event ↓ ↑ ──A─────────B── application ↓ ↑ So we have a MIDI device. This device has out port and in port from the device point of view. So via out port MIDI device sends MIDI data and via in port it receives data. But now let's look on this system from an application point of view. For application MIDI data that is going from a MIDI device, is actually received (point A on the picture above) by app from the device out port. And data that is going from the app, is received by device via its in port from app (point B). So my first question is what API represents A and B? There is four concepts in CoreMIDI: source destination input port output port So if we want to receive MIDI data from a MIDI device, what sould we use? I suppose we need something like that: void MyReadProc(const MIDIPacketList *pktlist, void *readProcRefCon, void *srcConnRefCon) { } ... MIDIClientRef client; MIDIClientCreate(CFSTR("CLIENT"), NULL, NULL, &client); MIDIPortRef inPort; MIDIInputPortCreate(client, CFSTR("TEST"), MyReadProc, NULL, &inPort); MIDIPortConnectSource(inPort, srcEndpoint, NULL); where srcEndpoint is MIDIEndpointRef representing source. Much funny things are happen when we want to send MIDI data to a device. Should we use MIDISend or MIDIReceived? Now I need to show my implementation of loopback port: #include <stdio.h> #include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h> #include <CoreMIDI/CoreMIDI.h> #include <mach/mach_time.h> #include <string.h> void MyReadProc(const MIDIPacketList *pktlist, void *readProcRefCon, void *srcConnRefCon) { if (readProcRefCon != NULL && srcConnRefCon != NULL) { MIDIPortRef portRef = *((MIDIPortRef*)readProcRefCon); MIDIEndpointRef destRef = *((MIDIEndpointRef*)srcConnRefCon); OSStatus result = MIDISend(portRef, destRef, pktlist); printf("B\n"); } } ... MIDIClientRef client; MIDIClientCreate(CFSTR("CLIENT"), NULL, NULL, &client); MIDIPortRef outPort; MIDIOutputPortCreate(client, CFSTR("TEST"), &outPort); MIDIEndpointRef destEndpoint; MIDIDestinationCreate(client, CFSTR("TEST"), MyReadProc, NULL, &destEndpoint); MIDIPortRef inPort; MIDIInputPortCreate(client, CFSTR("TEST"), MyReadProc, &outPort, &inPort); MIDIEndpointRef srcEndpoint; MIDISourceCreate(client, CFSTR("TEST"), &srcEndpoint); MIDIPortConnectSource(inPort, srcEndpoint, &destEndpoint); OK, I can create input MIDI port, connect it to source and receive events. But loopback means that if I send data to TEST out port (via out port, destination, source, MIDISend/Received, something else??), I want immediately receive that data from TEST in port. And I really don't understand how that loopback system should be built and how user will interact with it? So should be two ports in the system (or source and destination?). User somehow gets reference to out port (or source or destination?), sends data via it, and gets data back via reference to in port (or source or destination?). Seems like my head blows up.