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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.music
Subject: Re: Setting serial port's baud rate for midi on the Amiga
Keywords: midi baud amiga serial
Message-ID: <58485@becker.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 90 05:29:35 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.034829.11333@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1990Dec4.074947.23509@lth.se>
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In article <1990Dec4.074947.23509@lth.se> e85rw@efd.lth.se (Ricard Wolf) writes:
|Does anybody out there know how to program the serial port from Amiga Basic
|so it runs at the correct MIDI rate (31.25 Kbaud)? I friend of mine is
|writing compositional programs from basic and has the required
|hardware for RS-232 <-> midi conversion, but has found that he can only
|set the serial port to the cannonical baud rates 1200,2400,4800, etc.
|
|Hints, anyone?

	You can't do it from Basic, the performance
	requirements are way outside of what it
	can do. Also you need to set some serial
	device parameters of which only a small
	subset can be manipulated from Basic.

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