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From: lcbrink@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Lee C. Brink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems w/MIDI
Keywords: MIDI
Message-ID: <3986@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 90 15:30:14 GMT
References: <3976@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <11176@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: lcbrink@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Lee C. Brink)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <11176@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> dormer@cs.purdue.edu (John Dormer)
writes:
>
>Are you sure that you aren't doing something >really< simple like switching
>the switch that controls passthru/MIDI? My Dr. T's has a big, white button
>on its front to change between sending signals out the back (rs232 passthru)
>or out to the MIDI bus. I've forgotten to switch it back quite a few times
>after a long session of telecom, only to confuse my modem into submission
>with all those MIDI packets ;)
>

  I have made sure (As well as some others who have watched) that the button 
is in the right position.  Unfortunately it doesn't seem that a mere button
in the wrong position is the problem.
  To all who have sent mail - Thanks for the suggestions on checking the
power on the serial port (I'll check that in a day or so when I have access
to the necessary tools) but the interface does work.  It has been tried on
an Amiga 500 and it worked fine.  I have had the serial port itself 
replaced due to a bent pin (Pin 2 to be exact) but otherwise there have been
no problems.  (A side note - When the 2500-ECE-D10 setup was tested with
a midi tester [For lack of a better or technical name] there was NOTHING. 
Not even power.  The 500-ECE-D10 setup showed full operation.)