Date   : Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:02:36 +0100
From   : "bronwen tuffen" <clutter@...>
Subject: Re: BBC MIDI Input??

Just a FYI - MIDI baud rate is 31250.... very non-standard.

>From recollection, I never really got the Music 2000 (?) MIDI interface to
receive properly - the Music4000 keyboard was usable (latency etc.) but the
MIDI in - hmmmmm...

I've been thinking about getting all of my Music x000 stuff set up again, I
wonder if the disks still work :-)

john..

music: http://www.namke.com/
       http://www.namke.org/
       http://listen.to/dktr_t

> From: Chris Thornley <C.J.Thornley@...>
> To: BBC Micro Mailing List <bbc-micro@...>
> Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] BBC MIDI Input??
> Date: 19 June 2001 18:54
> 
> There is an RS232 to Midi interface circuit in a past elektor electronics
> magazine, I could dig the information up if you want. You'll have to
program
> the serial chip directly for the correct midi board rate 11500baud. As
far
> as playing midi tune is concerned you have to write some sort of (general
> midi) interpreter and have a saved sample bank. This could take up a lot
of
> space. I have a BBC micro user article which has some processing code
which
> will allow you to crudely play 8bit sample on the bbc speaker if this is
of
> any help. I also have a sample bank from a util called GMplay but I think
> the humble bbc might not be up to multiplexing channels of sound for
> playback.
> 
> I think the music 500 could be used for an intermediate solution. There's
> also a yamahaa board which you can hook up to a serial port and get it to
> output midi, I have to dig these details out though.
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bbc-micro@...
> [mailto:owner-bbc-micro@...]On Behalf Of Tim Fardell
> Sent: 19 June 2001 12:03
> To: BBC Micro Mailing List
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] BBC MIDI Input??
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just a quick question: Is there any device than enables a BBC to receive
> MIDI data, and play it out via it's sound chip and internal speaker? Bit
> of a strange thing to want to do, perhaps, but I really do want to know
> :-)
> 
> TIA
> 
> Tim.
> 
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