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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: problems with MIDI sequencing / recording on the Amiga
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Date: Sun, 3-May-87 03:37:44 EDT
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>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

	Pooh.  All three machines are 68000's.  The problem is that the
Amiga is multi-tasking, whereas the Mac and ST are basically single-tasking. 
Taking over the machine, though easily, is not as practical for the Amiga
because there would then be many angery users giving the Co. hell for 
doing it.

	So what does the Amiga give the MIDI developer as an option? 
You got it... either add some hardware to generate an interrupt (adding
your interrupt handler to the system), or futz around with the interrupts
you've got from the serial and parallel ports.  Since MIDI is serial, I
see no reason why a MIDI developer couldn't write his own serial.device,
and then he can do anything he wants with the serial interrupts.

				-Matt