Yahoo Groups archive

Elektron Musical Instruments

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 23:22 UTC

Message

MIDI bit rate and 'turbo'

2006-10-05 by Mark Rivera

My guess on the TM is that the bit rate is faster, and that the actual 
MIDI bytes and protocol (aside from the speed) are respected. This means 
you can issue ten Note-On's in 1ms instead of just one. That's alot of 
improvement as far as tightness.

---

Re the bit rate itself, I think Wikipedia (and many, many other online 
resources may be wrong).

The MIDI Manufacturers Association states "31.25 Kbits/sec" at: 
http://www.midi.org/about-midi/tutorial/tutor.shtml .

Wikipedia states 31,250 bits per second.

Since this is a computer kilo (1024), and not a metric kilo (1000), I 
think the bit rate for MIDI may actually be 32000 bits per second.

Does anyone have the official MIDI Spec 1.0 book? I'm looking for an 
official source that says the bit rate without stating it in terms of kilos.

thanks,
Mark

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.