Midi Merge Technique? (Jitter)

[Byron G. Jacquot]

>I've never found a UART with a hardware FIFO outside of a PC.
>I normally use 6850 ACIAs.
>You need to be quick to get the received byte out of them before the next
>byte appears.
>If you can't read the data from the UART fast enough to do without a
>hardware FIFO, then you need a faster processor, or better code.

Although I think that's part of the problem we've been looking at trying to
solve with a flywheel: the clocks from most PC seqs are terrible!  And it's
not just the response time of the PC when recieving, it's also the load when
transmitting down the FIFO when sending.

And I heartily agree that you can run a silly amount of code on most micros
in the time it takes to recieve a byte via MIDI!  Usually enough to parse
and respond.

>With multiple din outputs that can independently add shuffle to grooveless
>drum machines.

But isn't that what we've been talking about avoiding in the first place
(jitter)?!?!  ;->

Byron