Re: A89: Re: Ti port equals MIDI-port!


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Re: A89: Re: Ti port equals MIDI-port!




At 06:44 AM 12/30/00, you wrote:

>Hi!
>
>| Hasnīt no one realised yet that the port signals that come from the TI are
>| equal to the ones of a MIDI-Port?
>
>What do you mean by "equal"?  Does that mean that a simple send instruction
>with the right data will be encoded the same way MIDI signals are?  How
>about acknowledge signals?  I don't think MIDI has them, does it?
>
>Anyway, looking at sndlib, it seems that you can send just about anything to
>the link port.
>
>| Think about the possibilities:
>| 1) a MIDI-Monitor
>| 2) a MIDI-Dump-Console
>| 3) a program-changer
>
>How much do these cost in real?  I wonder if it's worth the trouble.  For
>example, the required timing, which has to be 100% exact, would be hard to
>get, if not impossible (of course, for a simple monitor, you don't need
>this, but why would you need a monitor?
>
>| 4) Perhaps even a little sequencer... (let your TI play .MID-files on your
>| keyboard...)
>
>But MIDI files are often too large.

Are MIDI files not usually 1-10 KB?

>| Sounds interesting, doesnīt it?
>
>Yes, it does!  Do you have any links to information about the MIDI protocol?
>
>Bye,
>Sebastian




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