Elektron Musical Instruments

ahhhhhhh! OVERLOAD OVERLOAD! ....help i got 350 messages today on  
this subject!!!!!!

351 when i send this one....

lol

rui


On 3 Oct 2006, at 18:26, Edward George wrote:

> well the greater the bandwidth the less likely it is that the  
> computer will
> need to send a timing byte down the wire whilst it is also sending  
> note
> data, so the less likely it is that any messages will be sent late  
> because
> they had to wait for previous messages.
>
> i am just making this up as i go along, but the midi standard runs  
> at 31,250
> bps according to Wikipedia which means that if a note on message is  
> being
> transmitted which iirc is 3 bytes then we'll have to wait 30 bits  
> (the midi
> spec adds two extra bits per byte i think) of data before we can  
> send the
> midi clock message which is 30/31250 = 0.00096s which is almost a
> millisecond.
>
> i think that's right :S
>
> On 10/3/06, Tony Scharf <tony@...> wrote:
>>
>>   Which begs another question. How will it effect timing issues? I  
>> mean,
>> if Cubase is still putting out MIDI clock at the same rate, using
>> standard midi format, how is the driver for the turbo-midi device  
>> going
>> to somehow improve that?
>>
>> something about this just doesnt add up in my head.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> Edward George 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 :)
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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