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From: ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP (Amiga-Man)
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Subject: Re: Amiga midi problems?
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 08:00:53 EDT
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In article <628@cup.portal.com> Henry_Burdett_Messenger@cup.portal.com writes:
>
>This is still the case, and will continue to be the case. Unlike the Amiga, 
>the ST was *designed* for MIDI. 
>

Just a minor, but important, clarification. The only *hardware* difference
between an Amiga and an ST with respect to MIDI is the "level conversion
circuit to MIDI". The ST has it built in, the Amiga needs one plugged
into the serial port.

I have personally built the needed circuit, which costs $10 in parts
and one evening of trivial wiring. They are also available commercially
for $40-$50. So when you say the ST was *designed* for MIDI, lets just
put things in perspective. The MIDI standard was carefully designed
to be extremely simple to use by many types of devices. Any computer with
a serial port can speak MIDI with this simple interface (provided it
can support the MIDI data rate of ~32K too).

If you're talking about some other aspect, like some specific software
package or something, well that's different.
But for a person considering which computer to do MIDI with, they
shouldn't base it on the presence of internal MIDI conversion completely.

                             Ralph