RS232 in Titan

[J.D. McEachin]

On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> Trivia: How was the MIDI data rate selected?
> 
> Answer: It was the fastest baud rate an Intel 8751 with a 12Mhz crystal could go!!

And guess what's inside the Jupiter6, one of the 1st MIDI synths? A 12Mhz 
8051. (well, actually, 3 of them, and sometimes it's 8031s, but that's 
another story).

> Most PCs today can do 115.2KB all day long, which is 4X MIDI speeds. And I don't
> plan IN/OUT/THRU stuff, although somebody else probably will.

So what exactly do you need to transmit across this interface that would 
swamp MIDI?  A MIDI device with a decent serial handler can handle quite 
a bit of MIDI Continuous Controller info w/o bogging down.  It seems that 
the universality of MIDI would outweigh the advantages of 4x bandwidth.  
With MIDI, you could use anything from an MMT8 to Max to access the Titan.
 
> Is the Apple serial port really RS-422 (which is a differential Rs-232)?? Hmmm......

No, it's Rs-232.

JDM