Doepfer

What about adding a switch so that the keyboard and the incoming midi data
is not processed at the same time?

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:59 AM, <yahoo@doepfer.de> wrote:

>   > Hello,
> > On the CGK description it says that midi in is "currently not
> > used." Would
> > it be relatively easy to put this to use so that it would take
> > midi signals
> > from the port rather than the keyboard, so that the keyboard
> > itself could be
> > used as a midi-to-cv converter when desired?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Monroe
>
> Christian (the programmer of the A-100CGK firmware) would have added this
> feature if it would be possible. Most of the time the microcontroller is
> busy with the (dynamic) scanning of the keyboard contacts and has to
> calculate the note number (that's easy) and velocity (that's very time
> consuming because the time difference between the contacts has to be
> measured and from this the velocity calculated, in the worst case for
> several keys at the same time). This would lead to timing problems with the
> Midi input and that's why this feature is not included.
>
> Best regards
> Dieter Doepfer
> Doepfer Musikelektronik GmbH
> hardware@doepfer.de <hardware%40doepfer.de>
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