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From: mu106sbn@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (Stephen Hartford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.music.synth
Subject: problems with MIDI sequencing / recording on the Amiga
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Date: Sat, 2-May-87 17:40:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  2 17:40:26 1987
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Keywords: MIDI Amiga problems
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[the line battle continues...]

In the April  '87  issue  of  Keyboard  magazine,  Peter  Gotcher
writes:

        "... several developers writing software for the Amiga ..
have  been  unable  to  use the Amiga's high speed clock to time-
stamp incoming MIDI events (the clock starts and stops unpredict-
ably  when it is interrupted by other processing tasks). The only
alternative is to use the Amiga's  60Hz  video  retrace  to  time
events, resulting in a timing accuracy of 16ms..."

This accuracy is not good enough for any serious MIDI recording /
sequencing.   Is this the reason so little MIDI software is being
developed for the Amiga (vs. ST and Mac)? I've heard  talk  of  a
MIDI  card for the A2000 - is this card going to have a dedicated
high speed clock on it? SoundScape shows the kind of  sophistica-
tion MIDI software is capable of having on the Amiga. It would be
a shame if developers shy away from future Amiga software because
of hardware limitations.

-- 
Stephen Hartford, programmer (a.k.a. student) 		      /// 
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