At 4:21 PM -0500 11/11/06, Gene Heskett wrote: ... >Yup, and its been a constant src of amazement to this old fart that when >the midi spec was setup, they used a serial port, thats fine, but when >they set the data rate at only 31,250 baud, ... > >Consistently attrocious timeing, with the horns always 1/16 beat late >unless the actual output order of each instrument is scrambled in the >order output. That would make it sound a heck of a lot less mechanical. >And there isn't a heck of a lot that can be done until we put midi on an >optical circuit running at several megabytes/sec. Something like TOS >maybe? Firewire. Many products already, plenty of speed, almost robust enough. 1/8 millisecond isoch cycle times; each cycle can contain packets from many senders; each packet can contain lots of notes. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
