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From: kevin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Kevin Klop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.music
Subject: Re: setting serial port's baud rate for midi
Keywords: midi baud mac serial
Message-ID: <16306@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 00:49:40 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.034829.11333@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <2931@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: kevin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Kevin Klop)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2931@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk writes:
>Standard Suggestion Follows: you should use the MIDI Manager for MIDI.
>
>-- 
>Nick Rothwell,  Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
>                nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
>~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
> "You ain't seen nothing yet. I can take this floor out too, no trouble."

To expand on this...

Basic is just not fast enough to process the data at MIDI speeds.  You will
have to use some external library/driver/software to drive the serial port
at that speed.

			-- Kevin --


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