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From: akermanis@troa02.enet.dec.com (John Akermanis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Availability of MIDI software for OS-9
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.210136.26080@pa.dec.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 21:52:51 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.210613.3242@cbnewsd.att.com>, knudsen@cbnewsd.att.com (michael.j.knudsen) writes...
>In article <1991Apr19.130728.5439@pa.dec.com>, akermanis@troa01.enet.dec.com (John Akermanis) writes:
>> I thank you all kindly for the OS-9 MIDI information. All questions have been
>> answer with the exception of one. Do any of the packages which run under OS-9
>> allows you to also record?
> 
> 
>At the moment, no.  To record you *do* need a hardware MIDI Pak.
>Just before Christmas 1990 I wrote a set of programs tor ecord and playback
>under OS9 L2.  They worked, but the UART chip (6850) in my MIDI Pak
>didn't like the Coco3's 1.8 MHz clock and dropped or mangled bytes
>often enough to make playback rather rough, and so I stopped
>working on the program until I can find some 68B50 chips.
>
I would be interested on hearing how it all works out. In the mean time I shall
order UltiMusE and play. My girl friend is the musical one and I'm the hacker
looking at hooking her Roland Electronic Piano to the COCO III under OS-9.

By the way, what is the difference between the RS232 pak and the MIDI pak if I
may ask?


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