On Tuesday 17 October 2006 05:10 pm, Jay West wrote:
Chuck wrote....
I hate MIDI cables--I mean I REALLY hate them. I
trip over them, they
get tangled up in my chair and I'm afraid the dog will eat them.
Heard of a MIDI patch-bay? :D I recently bought a USB Midisport 8x8/S. Love
it. At least it helps aggregate where the cables go to.
I've seen some homebrew stuff like that out there on the web.
I've seen
a couple of wireless MIDI adaptors, but since they're
low-volume items, they're freakishly expensive. Does anyone have any
ideas or experience with a low-budget wireless MIDI setup?
From vague foggy probably incorrect memory - isn't the baud rate on midi
ports/cables unusually high - far higher than typical serial ports? I
wonder if this is why it's not available commonly?
If I'm remembering right it's 31.5K, which is not a standard serial rate at
all. Which means dedicated hardware, though it doesn't strike me as being
all that expensive hardware.
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