[sdiy] midi clock

[Paul Maddox]

Tim,

> Shudder! Because of all this talk of PICs and PLDs and things I
> had only been following this thread somewhat half-heartedly, but then I
> remembered I had a small book entitled 'Practical Electronic Music
> Projects' by R.A.Penfold (Babani, 1994). In it there are several simple
> MIDI circuits, one of which is for a control pedal, and another for
> detecting any given MIDI byte. Both use a UART chip (6402) which seems
> to simplify things considerably.

from a hardware point of view it offers one benefit, no software.
>From a component count point of view it offers one less benefit, more parts
>From a flexibilty point of view, its fixed, you cant add another feature.

AVR/PIC stuff might seem very daunting, The monowave was my second AVR
project, it took me less than 3 months to get the first version of the OS
fully working... Ok, since then its come on quite someway and Ive moved to C
instead of assembler..
But Assembler for simple things, such as Midi/CV is not that daunting..

Paul