17 Oct
2006
17 Oct
'06
7:50 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, der Mouse wrote:
I should know better having built homebrewed MIDI gizmos. 38.8 or 32.x
aroundabouts.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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> From vague
foggy probably incorrect memory - isn't the baud rate on
> midi ports/cables unusually high - far higher than typical serial
> ports?
Wired midi is a balanced current loop running at
19.2kbps.
Not 19.2. It's high but not insanely high, somewhere in the low tens
of kbps I think. However, I'm quite sure it's not one of the usual
serial-port speeds, which rules out 19.2 kbaud.
It's also *opto-isolated* current loop.