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From: daq@hpesrgd.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MIDI in BASIC?
Message-ID: <4040001@hpesrgd.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 88 20:46:24 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard - ESL, Fort Collins CO
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     I desperatley want to write a patch editor for my DX7II, but my basic
problem is I do not want to buy a C compiler.

     The Amiga does not let you run the RS-232 port at 32 kbaud in BASIC.  

     I do have an external midi port hooked into the RS232, and what I want 
to know is whether the interpreted basic is really too slow to interact with
the RS232 at 32 kbaud, or did Commodore just make an arbitrary decision not to
allow you to run the RS232 that fast from BASIC?

    Does any one know how to do that?   If not, are there some public domain
routines that will allow me to read midi input and store it to a binary 
file, or to dump a binary file to midi output?  Actually, I really do not care
if they are not public domain.  I just do not want to pay $100 to $200  for
a patch editor/librarian.

         Thanks

         Doug Q.