[PD] [OT] serial out to midi

Marc Lavallée odradek at videotron.ca
Thu Jul 17 14:55:59 CEST 2003


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Le 17 Juillet 2003 04:45, Olaf Matthes a écrit :

> It's not that easy... You would have to convert the +5Volts TTL signals
> from the serial port into a 20mA current loop for MIDI. You also would
> have to change a crystal in your computer (!) to get the MIDI data rate
> of 31.25 kBaud (which can not be achieved with a standard serial port).

My comment won't help much, but it the old days of the Macintosh, I built 
a MIDI interface for $10: the serial port was accepting an external sync 
clock... Too bad the PC serial port doesn't.

- -- 
Marc
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE/FpzfQdzoeKQ0PccRAqWAAJwIziZ9bWiKnrET7OkSN6aclDGMqwCgwQZw
iCytg3nsFHjiANNUa8VdzLA=
=d/vA
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----





More information about the Pd-list mailing list