[sdiy] midi to arpeggio clock

[Neil Johnson]

Hi,

>> Assuming that the stream doesn't contain wretched sysex data, you can
>> just watch for those and ignore all else (I think.)
>
> according to the spec, as was quoth on a recent AH thread, system  
> realtime messages can occur anywhere -- even within a sysex stream.  
> i was surprised.

Why were you surprised?  The MIDI spec clearly states this behaviour,  
and it is obvious why this behaviour is needed.   Think of the SysRT  
messages as a kind of side-channel.

> and sysex payload must have the high bit clear, so it really is  
> just a case of checking for those values. if you're only doing  
> clock, the task is easy.

More generally, data bytes are defined as having bit 7 = 0, and  
status bytes with bit 7 = 1.

Cheers,
Neil
(currently reading the MIDI spec)
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