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[Paul Maddox]

Terry,

>Unfortunately, all of the 8 bit MCU's I've seen only go up to 9600 or
>14.4k. Even if you found one that went above 32k, you'd need a really
>oddball crystal to get the right timing, since it's divided down internally
>to match one of the common, slower bit rates, none of which are
>mathematically close to MIDI. This is why it's almost always done with a
>software UART. Fortunately, such code is available.
>


NOPE.. you DONT need any strange crystal.. mine works fine from a 4Mhz Xtal, 
no strange timing and it will handle upto 128Kbaud

so you dont need a software UART...
Like I say, its a superb chip..

A friend of mine is makeing a Midi-merger useing this chip.

Paul



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