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From: bobm@rtech.UUCP (Bob Mcqueer)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: MIDI specs?
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 12:41:33 EDT
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> This is a very good question. I have seen people post things saying,"...
> a good place to get MIDI information..." but nothing about where to get
> the bare-bones MIDI specs. What's the baud-rate, word length ect...

The International MIDI Association
11857 Hartsook St.,
North Hollywood, CA 91607
(818) 505 8964

Membership is $40/yr. which gets you the newsletter, a spec. and
access to the "IMA Hotline", an information line, really.  This is
where I got my copy of the spec.  There are more expensive levels of
membership - $125/yr. "Retailer/Educator" and $300/yr. "Manufacturer/
Distributor".

Sequential Circuits, Inc.
3051 North First St.
San Jose, CA.  95143-2093
(408) 946 5240

The last I knew Sequential Circuits was selling copies of the spec.
for either $6 or $10, but this is not firsthand information.

I hearby volunteer for something I may wish I hadn't - IF enough
people request it, I'd be willing to post a description of the
MIDI protocol to this newsgroup.  I will NOT do so by simply
copying in the words from the specification - it has a copyright.  But
so far as I know, describing the protocol myself breaks no laws,
and affords me the opportunity to put in my own two-cents worth along
the way :-).  I DO promise to try to make it easy to excerpt the
technical specs from any "soapboxing" I might feel compelled to do.

Bob McQueer
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