From: Chris Schumann (whizkid_at_dwave.net)
Date: Fri Oct 09 1998 - 12:57:54 EDT
MIDI data rate is 32,768 bits per second. A serial port set to 38,400 bits
per second can handle everything you can cram on a MIDI port just fine.
When the MPU-401 came out, serial ports topped out at 19,200. (Which is
the fastest "supported" bit rate on my TP750.)
Anything with a 16550 equivalent serial port should handle MIDI very well.
Chris Schumann <whizkid_at_dwave.net>
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 10:15:11 -0400
From: Scott Kelley <scottk_at_avana.net>
To: THINKPAD_at_CS.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: [TPall] midi for laptop - neat device seen
As a point of information, if you do anything with several channels and
alot of commands, serial ports don't handle the traffic fast enough. That
is why the MPU-401 was developed in the first place for the computer. If
that is the only affordable solution then I may give it a try ($300 is a
bit much for an expansion for me right now)
Scott.
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