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[Colin f]

> This mystique is nonsense. There's nothing clever about the 
> Atari MIDI 
> port.

Yes there is. You can have direct access to the hardware from application
software.
You don't need to go through a shoddily written 'multimedia' API, plus the
manufacturers driver.

> I know because I was involved in writing a professional 
> sequencer for the 
> Atari, and we had a lot of fun trying to get the timing down to a 
> resolution of 480ppqn.

That seems a totally pointless exercise.
At 120 bpm, a 480 ppqn clock tick lasts 1ms, which is the length of a single
note message.
If you send any quantity of data at all, the timing resolution is lost in
the noise of serial latency...
High timing resolution in a MIDI sequencer is just marketing.

Cheers,
Colin f