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RE: [motm] Quad Quantizer: need your inputs

2007-08-27 by Jason Proctor

if the module implements the USB MIDI specification, it will appear 
to the host as a MIDI interface. no drivers or special software 
necessary.

(personally however i don't much care whether it has a MIDI jack or a USB one)


>Given that the MIDI Tuning Standard program number is part of the MTS file,
>I expect programming of the quantizer over USB to be cumbersome.  I wouldn't
>expect the standard PC and MAC tuning tools to implement USB, and I don't
>expect general USB dump tools to support MTS.  You'd have to create the file
>on SCALA for PC or Li'l Miss' Scale Oven for MAC, including the embedded
>program number, then do the actual transfer with a USB utility.  It is
>better to have the program number accessible from the tool used to do the
>programming, so that you can change it on the fly as necessary.
>
>So my vote is for a MIDI jack.  Without the programming feature
>(microtunable), a quantizer is useless to me.
>
>John Loffink
>The Microtonal Synthesis Web Site
>http://www.microtonal-synthesis.com
>The Wavemakers Synthesizer Web Site
>http://www.wavemakers-synth.com

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