[sdiy] Midi: "Save Tim's Hair"

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Jay Schwichtenberg" <jays at aracnet.com> wrote:
>Tim,
>
>Typically there are two problems. Active sensing or MIDI Time Code (MTC).
>These can be stuck in the MIDI stream inside other MIDI 'packets'. If you
>can run two programs at a time or two machines back to back try and get a SW
>MIDI monitor going. Or maybe one of your synths might have a MIDI monitor.
>E! does on my DX7II.
>
>Jay

This is precisely what I do.  I have an old slow DOS PC box that has an
MPU-401 in it.  I wrote a fairly simple program to monitor MIDI data for
display as while it copies bytes from input to output.  I'll be more than
happy to give you the source for it, but it's written for DOS, M$ QuickC ver
2.5, _not_ Windoze.

This technique has always revealed what is going on.  It will introduce a
small delay, but once the problem is found and corrected, this piece is
easily removed from the MIDI stream.  An invaluable tool, IMHO.



>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Tim Ressel
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 11:07 AM
>> To: Synth-Diy
>> Subject: [sdiy] Midi: "Save Tim's Hair"
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> One more big time!
>>
>> There seems to be some incompatibility between Sonar
>> and my homebrew Midi2CV convertor. Does anyone know
>> what the Sonar output looks like? It is acting as
>> though there are no note-off messages (or
>> zero-velocity note-ons).
>>
>> --tr
>>
>>
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