On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 16:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I might add, to put the weight of the iron in the system into perspective, > that I have done some quite adequate midi work, on a trs-80 color > computer running os9, driving both a hardware rs-232 port and a serial > bit banger, splitting the voices between them to overcome the limited > polyphony of my cheap keyboards. This mind you was on a machine whose > basic cpu clock speed is 0.889 mhz. No, thats NOT a typo... I'm not overly-surprised that it's possible. Consider the numerous stand-alone, non-computer, devices that act as MIDI composers, etc. They will have some sort of processor, and it won't be a multi-MegaHertz one. It's more a case of what else is it doing at the same time. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
