MIDI

[Tony Nelson]

At 4:21 PM -0500 11/11/06, Gene Heskett wrote:
 ...
>Yup, and its been a constant src of amazement to this old fart that when
>the midi spec was setup, they used a serial port, thats fine, but when
>they set the data rate at only 31,250 baud, ...
>
>Consistently attrocious timeing, with the horns always 1/16 beat late
>unless the actual output order of each instrument is scrambled in the
>order output.  That would make it sound a heck of a lot less mechanical.
>And there isn't a heck of a lot that can be done until we put midi on an
>optical circuit running at several megabytes/sec.  Something like TOS
>maybe?

Firewire.  Many products already, plenty of speed, almost robust enough.
1/8 millisecond isoch cycle times; each cycle can contain packets from many
senders; each packet can contain lots of notes.
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