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From: fredc@petsd.UUCP (Fred Cassirer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems reading midi data
Message-ID: <1187@petsd.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 13:14:51 GMT
References: <1599@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: fredc@petsd.UUCP (Fred Cassirer)
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In article <1599@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> andy@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Andrew M. Milburn) writes:
>References:
>
>Can someone outline the correct way to open and read the serial port
>to capture incoming midi data?  I've been hacking at this a while,
>but I'm having (very) intermittent problems losing single bytes of data.
>This only happens on certain synthesizers (a DX100 and a DX27)
>and only in certain phases of the moon.  I'm setting RAD_BOOGIE,
>any other tricks?


A while back I wrote some programs to play with midi using a DX27.  They
are on one of the fish disks (not sure which one), its called MIDITOOLS.
It allows you to play/record midi events to/from disk and it adds a
time stamp so it plays back almost correctly.  I had a lot of problems
doing bulk voice dumps on the DX27, seems to be some firmware problems 
that cause the DX to lock up.  I know there has got to be a way but
so far I haven't found it.  As for the standard midi stuff the program
seems to work for that ok.  Make sure you set your serial port to 
31250 baud.  If you want I can email you the source.

					Fred Cassirer