Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

> Given that MIDI is a serial transfer protocol, it's impossible for two 
> notes to trigger at exactly the same time.  Just the delay introduced by 
> this fact can be around 2-3ms PER NOTE if I remember correctly.

I know, which is why I want to do the timings again with MIDI
transmission off. MIDI is 31.25kbaud, which means 3 msec per note in
the worst case, 2 msec if there's running status (which generally
won't be the case for multiple XL-7 pattern tracks since they're on
different MIDI channels).

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  nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http://www.cassiel.com