[sdiy] 303 cpu/feature hacking

[Anthony Bisset]

anyone taken a shot at manually turning on the interrupts in the 303 while
in the write mode?  i'm curious if it could be kludged into giving us a
compose while playing mode.  perhaps using a second 303 cpu that is always
playing while the first is writing/wired to the interface.  hahaha,
this is a cool mod, any warnings before i attempt this?  i need another
303 cpu.  anyone selling?

-anthony


On Sat, 6 May 2006, Ingo Debus wrote:

>
> Am 04.05.2006 um 19:00 schrieb elmacaco:
>
> > Yes, the Atari Machines are known for both their tight timing and
> > low midi
> > latency, I rarely hear about the midi latency because it seems non
> > existent.
> >
>
> Hm, what *is* latency here? How is it defined?
>
> On a (hardware or software) synth, latency is the time between the
> arrival of the MIDI message and the actual starting of the sound. But
> we're talking about the Atari ST, thus certainly not about a soft
> synth, correct? What does latency mean for a MIDI sequencer? The
> difference between the time stamp value recorded along with a MIDI
> event and the actual time when this event occurred? As long as this
> 'latency' is constant, it could easily be compensated by the
> sequencer program.
> And even if it couldn't, what's the difference between "tight timing"
> and "low MIDI latency" then?
>
> Ingo
>