MIDI hardware timing devices

[Marc-Julien Objois]

The Dark force of dance wrote:
> 
> Y-ellow Marc-Julien.

Bloo!
 
> I don't use the motorola stuff. I'm a MCS51 kinda guy. That's for more
> practical and financial reasons but that's not important here. Whilst I
> haven't done what you're suggesting yet I will need to do this in the near
> future. On a theoretical level however, what you need to produce is a
> software generated phase locked loop. Or in television parlance a flywheel
> circuit. This allows you to lock at a higher resolution than the MIDI sync
> affords. As I said, I have not done this yet on a practical level but I can
> assume this is not exactly an easy thing to achieve. Or more to the point.
> Achieve well.

K.  Don't know what a phase locked loop or flywheel circuit is... 
Anybody have a reader's digest explanation for me?
 
> I had actually considered doing it outboard  in a real-world PLL but I'm
> not sure that is exactly the most elegant solution.

Err.     PLL == Programmable Logic ...  Llama?

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