Elektron Musical Instruments

Good point.  I'm no technical guru when it comes to MIDI.  What you say does
correlate with my dim recollection of what has been said about Turbo MIDI.

On 10/3/06, Edward George <edwardgeorge@...> wrote:
>
>   well the midi specification bit may be a bit misleading? though there
> will
> be a completely different protocol (no status bit maybe) surely any
> changes
> to the data layer aren't going to need a new piece of hardware, it must be
> a
> change at the physical level. Somebody mentioned something once about
> using
> all the pins, maybe they're running their own parallel data stream over a
> connection that is normally just serial or something? i dunno! I'll
> definately be having a peek at the stream when mine arrives :)
>
> On 10/3/06, onosendai@... <onosendai%40free.fr> <onosendai@...<onosendai%40free.fr>>
> wrote:
> >
> > Well, we use midi since more than ten years and i never heard someone
> > complain
> > about slow midi specification... Think about Jarre, Tangerine Dreams and
> > Vangelis, how many synth they use with "simple" midi ?
> >
> > By the way, the future of midi already exist : it's OSC (for
> > OpenSoundControl).
> > Native Instruments use OSC (and midi) with all of their product. So i
> > don't
> > understand why Elektron have to think about a new kind of format.
> >
> > It's a bit weird to me :/
> >
> > Ono
> >
> > > No, no, no, no, no.
> > >
> > > Turbo MIDI enhances the ancient and slow MIDI specification so samples
> > > may be transferred much more quickly from a computer to the UW. As a
> > > side effect, it also increases the resolution of the MIDI timing. The
> > > UW can sync to a computer just as well as any other MIDI device
> > > without Turbo MIDI.
> > >
> > > /Scott
> > >
> > > On 10/3/06, Tony Scharf <tony@... <tony%40mtx-media.com><tony%40mtx-
> media.com>>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > onosendai@... <onosendai%40free.fr> <onosendai%40free.fr> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm sorry but i don't understand why Turbo Midi is a good thing...
> > > > >
> > > > > It's only a USB like speed midi transfert isn't it ? Do we need to
> > pay
> > > > > 60 euros
> > > > > for that ? Just to speed up sample transfert ? Or worst, to fix
> the
> > sync
> > > > > problem we all have with MD ?
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't understand why my MD can't sync with Live, my other gear
> can
> > do
> > > > that
> > > > > well so the problem came from the heart of MD, not from anywhere
> > else.
> > > > >
> > > > > For me, Turbo Midi is just an hardware fix (we have to pay)
> > > > >
> > > > > But maybe i'm wrong ?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > This was exactly my question. seems like a way to skirt the issue of
> a
> > > > larger problem...
> > > >
> > > > Tony
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Scott Kellogg
> > >
> > >
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Scott Kellogg


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