[sdiy] The Anything Box: Laptop as module?

[Theo]

"Midi 2"
This dates from ages ago.
Some guy fantasized his own improved "midi" version and made some fuzz about
it.
Never existed.
Never was a official midi development.
Never,.. well just forget about it.

"every thing in 127 steps"
The Midi spec does provide 14 bit controllers (16384 steps) using two
controller numbers.
One for the least (LSC) and one for the most (MSC) significant 7 bits.
Because you only need to transfer the MSC when its data actually changes,
the amount of data to be transferred is almost the same as for 7 bit mode.
The fact that most stuff uses only 7 bit controllers has nothing to do with
the speed of the midi connection.
In the case of a CV to midi box it is just a cost issue.
14 bit resolution would need a much more expensive DAC.

Theo


From: Jim Johnson <jamos at technotoys.com>

> MIDI 2? WTF is that?
>
> Jim Johnson
> jamos at technotoys.com
>
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> On 10/24/02 at 3:12 PM Peter Grenader wrote:
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> >Grant Richter wrote:
> >
> >> But that's just like being in a band, isn't it?
> >
> >HA!  THAT was good one
> >
> >Doepter has a gizmo that works OK if you're thing is getting CV
> transferred
> >to midi., but yes, it does suffer from resolution (everything is
quantized
> >into 127 steps) and there are speed issues, which I think is because of
> the
> >opto's in the Midi bus.
> >
> >Barry Schrader told me that Midi 2 addresses all this, but nobody's
> biting.
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