Midi, serial ports, uart's and the compaq aero

[Fraser, Colin J]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rene Schmitz [mailto:uzs159 at uni-bonn.de]
> Sent: Friday, October 09, 1998 2:58 PM
> To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject: RE: Midi, serial ports, uart's and the compaq aero
> 
> 
> Are you talking about me??? ;-)
> 
> The Windows CV interface driver (hacked from mrouter...) can 
> be found at
> http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs159/cvmidi.html
> (Sources and descriptions of the Interface can be found there.)
> 

I've dowloaded your files - they look very useful, and nice and simple for a
single cv/gate output, but my cv convertor is processor based, and has 40 cv
outputs and 32 gate outputs.

What I want to do is just to cut out the serial midi interface from the PC
to my cv convertor.
I gave up using my PC for sequencing because the timing via my midi
interfaces was dreadful - probably down to latency in the soundcard etc.
more than just midi itself, but I found it unusable.
If I can use a midi driver in seq303, Cubase etc, that speaks to my cv
convertor processor directly, via the parallel interface, I may be able to
start using my PC for sequencing again. Also, my friends use a cv convertor
I built for them, and I had big problems getting two soundcard midi
interfaces to work on their PC (they use one interface just for cv'ed gear).
They would benefit from a parallel i/f to their convertor too.
My convertor already has a printer port compatible interface that just
expects to receive midi bytes directly - so it seems I just need to work out
how to write the midi bytes to the parallel port on the PC and off I go...


Colin f