[sdiy] Using MIDI internally in a polysynth

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 31 Aug 2007, at 17:04, John Speth wrote:

>> What I want to know is: What do people think of
>> using MIDI internally
>> this way? Has anyone tried anything similar, or does
>> anyone know of
>> any synths that do something similar? Would this
>> scheme be too laggy?
>
> Internal use of the entire MIDI statndard would be
> overkill.  I think if you used fast SPI as the
> electrical layer and then just used the MIDI messaging
> system over SPI you'd have a good inexpensive data
> link plus a clear path for future work.  And you're
> not limited to 31.25 K baud.  You can use SPI as fast
> as you dare and skip past all the MIDI latency
> problems (assuming your firmware latency is
> tolerable).


Ok, so I've got lots of votes for using SPI instead of MIDI - Thanks  
for the thoughts.

How easy/difficult is it to talk to multiple voices with a SPI  
connection?

T.