[sdiy] The Anything Box: Laptop as module?

[Jim Johnson]

Ah... the XMidi thing. 

Never mind, indeed.

Thx.

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On 10/25/02 at 3:27 AM Theo wrote:

>"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:
>>
>> >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.
>>
>>
>>


Jim Johnson 
jamos at technotoys.com