Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site esc-bb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!oakhill!cyb-eng!esc-bb!brad From: brad@esc-bb.UUCP (Brad Benton) Newsgroups: net.music.synth Subject: Re: rs232 midi interfaces Message-ID: <132@esc-bb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 09:12:05 EST Article-I.D.: esc-bb.132 Posted: Thu Feb 21 09:12:05 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Mar-85 09:13:49 EST References: <870@bnl.UUCP> <2560@mcnc.UUCP> <431@ssc-vax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Eclipse Systems Corp., Austin, TX Lines: 25 > If what you say is true then someone should invent a MIDI-RS232 translator. > It would have an immediate market; especially with owners of computers that > don't have i/o slots, such as Kaypros. Any takers? Sound Composition Systems has taken the challenge, and has announced the MIDI Performer II, an interface box that runs 9600 baud RS-232 on one side, and MIDI (31.25 Kbaud) on the other. All of this information comes from the latest (Vol 8, No 4) issue of Computer Music Journal. The box comes with a 2 Kbyte buffer, which can be expanded to 8K, and has a Z80 brain. And it works in two modes: transparent (bytes immediately available), and time tagged (you get to know exactly when a key was pressed, or you can tag info for a synth, and the MIDI box will schedule it for you). The "introductory price" is $345, and the place that makes and sells this device is: Sound Composition Systems 1277 East Colorado Pasadena, California 91106 (818) 440-0584 -bb ..!{seismo,ihnp4,gatech}!ut-sally!cyb-eng!esc-bb!brad