[sdiy] Who apart from me things the whole MIDI board needs replacing ?

[Roman Sowa]

Optocouplers are commonly used in inputs of industrial controllers of 
any kind.
At least they were for decades. Not so much anymore when everything is 
going ethernet

Roman

W dniu 2022-01-27 o 11:36, Sean Ellis pisze:
> As an aside, with the circuit posted below could that midi input also be 
> used for a gate input with correct protection? Seems like the diodes 
> will do the job as long as it's a mono cable into stereo jack.
> 
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> *From:* Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> on behalf of Roman 
> Sowa <modular at go2.pl>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 27 January 2022 10:49 AM
> *To:* synth-diy at synth-diy.org <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [sdiy] Who apart from me things the whole MIDI board 
> needs replacing ?
> There are also optocouplers with dual LEDs in reverse, so polarity
> doesn't matter without hassle of adding diodes. For example APCL214,
> which I've used in my MIDI2CV converters. Not only it provided
> mistake-free wiring, but was also smaller than typical SOP5 optocoupler.
> 
> Roman
> 
> W dniu 2022-01-26 o 20:04, Sean Ellis via Synth-diy pisze:
>> Quite a few modules do it:
>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakplugg/Neutron-Sound-Dust-of-Time/master/schematic.pdf 
> <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakplugg/Neutron-Sound-Dust-of-Time/master/schematic.pdf> 
> 
>> <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakplugg/Neutron-Sound-Dust-of-Time/master/schematic.pdf 
> <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakplugg/Neutron-Sound-Dust-of-Time/master/schematic.pdf>>
>> 
>> 
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>> *From:* Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> on behalf of Quincas 
>> Moreira via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 26 January 2022 3:11 PM
>> *To:* Mattias Rickardsson <mr at analogue.org>
>> *Cc:* Synth DIY <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [sdiy] Who apart from me things the whole MIDI board 
>> needs replacing ?
>> Matias, the Tukra by Tesseract does the same. Works with both standards 
>> for the input and has selectable output.
>> I appreciate the nostalgic love for Din connectors but they seriously 
>> limit the size and shape of the devices. I like how things are skinny 
>> these days… And yes, while the standard chose a smaller barrel, this was 
>> indeed done too late when already all manufacturers are using 3.5mm. 
>> They should have stuck to that and just chosen one polarity to be the 
>> standard  IMO.
>> BTW I’ve been using 3.5mm trs MIDI for nearly a decade myself and have 
>> never encountered a ground loop issue.
>> 
>> On Wed 26 Jan 2022 at 4:57 Mattias Rickardsson <mr at analogue.org 
>> <mailto:mr at analogue.org <mailto:mr at analogue.org>>> wrote:
>> 
>>     <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com
>>     <mailto:grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com 
> <mailto:grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com>>> skrev:
>> 
>>         Hey, it only took them a decade or so to include a messed up
>>         standard for 1/8" TRS connectors.
>> 
>> 
>>     But the MIDI standard for TRS jacks ended up using 2.5 mm jacks, not
>>     3.5 mm (1/8"). Just to avoid confusion. (-:
>> 
>>     3.5 mm was already the de-facto standard by then. But half of the
>>     manufacturers ended up using one polarity and the other half chose
>>     the other, which potentially makes MIDI devices incompatible, unless
>>     special cables/adapters are at hand.
>> 
>>     In Elektron's Model series of instruments we implemented the TRS
>>     MIDI In to accept any polarity (passively, using diodes!), and a
>>     setting in the UI chooses between the two polarities for the TRS
>>     MIDI Out. Has this been done anywhere else? I've always felt that it
>>     perhaps should be published as an official application note, a
>>     suggested implementation superpower for other manufacturers to pick
>>     up. :-)
>> 
>>     /mr
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