Midi Merge Technique?

[DCMagnuson at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/21/00 8:16:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
pfperry at melbpc.org.au writes:

> looking on the scope at what comes out of the Korg KMS30 midi to din 
> convertor,
>  I can only assume that the midi timing clocks have a pretty wide jitter on 
> them 
>  as they come out of Cakewalk on my computer.
>  
>  Has anyone got gear to tell exactly how regular are midi clocks in the real
>  world?

This has come up several times on the Rec.Audio.Pro newsgroup.

Generally MIDI timing coming from a Win95 or Win98 based sequencer has a lot 
of fluctuation to it.  I beleive it has something to do with the time sharing 
of the CPU.  Apparently MIDI doesn't receive a very high priority from the OS.

The timing on hardware sequencers is usually pretty solid

Dave Magnuson
Independent Music Site
http://www.indiemusicsite.com