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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Amiga midi
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Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 12:59:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 12:59:54 1987
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czei@osupyr.UUCP (Michael S Czeiszperger) wrote:
>I've read comments in MIX Magazine where a certain freelance writer
>made noises about how the Amiga cannot timestamp income MIDI events
>with an greater accuracy than ~20-30ms.

Ah, well... now we get to the root of the matter.  This observation
on the part of the freelance writer is false, of course.

The fact is, the Amiga has no problems with MIDI.  One package once
did, the new packages do not.  Some programmers took what they
considered to be a shortcut (using the device meant for normal serial
communications) and found that it was not designed for MIDI.  It's
partially the fault of the device driver for allowing people to think
that MIDI data rates mean MIDI support.

Once again ... all the currently available MIDI programs that I have
seen, commercial and public domain, do NOT have any problems with
MIDI timestamping.

Anything else?

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}