17 Oct
2006
17 Oct
'06
2:15 p.m.
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 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?
31250 baud - unusual, but not that high. I once made a midi port out of
a normal serial port card by replacing the 14.odd MHz crystal with a
16MHz one.
Gordon.