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From: glenb@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Glen Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga/MIDI Help Needed
Message-ID: <620005@hpnmdla.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 89 15:47:46 GMT
Organization: HP Network Measurements Div, Santa Rosa, CA
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  Hey...is anybody out there in netland real familiar with amiga/MIDI stuff?
Here's my problem:  I've got a couple thousand voices that I've downloaded 
from the net.  I've got an Amiga 500.  I've got a MIDI interface.  I've got 
an old DX7.  I've got Dr T's caged artist (DX-Heaven).  What I don't have is
any way to get the voices from the disk into the synth.  

  All I need is a simple program to download either a single voice or a 
bank of voices from the Amiga to the DX.  Since I don't have a C compiler
(*gasp*!) I really would like to do this in BASIC.  

  I've been hacking around with this, but I can't seem to get the serial 
port on the Amiga to run fast enough (the "documentation" seems to indicate
that 19.2 Kbaud is the max, while I need 31.25 for MIDI...right?). Formatting
the data is no problem, I just need to know how to talk to the $@&!# serial
port correctly!

  Can anybody help me out here?  If not, can anybody recommend a good
psychiatrist?

  
  Thanks,

     Glen "All I wanna do is..." Baker