Old MIDI Instruments Don't Like Modern MIDI. What's to Be Done?
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Re: Old MIDI Instruments Don't Like Modern MIDI. What's to Be Done?
#2Notthing. Greed and planed obsolescence are here to stay.
Re: Old MIDI Instruments Don't Like Modern MIDI. What's to Be Done?
#3> The 8-bit microprocessor on a 1983 synth has problems keeping up with the rapid-fire data that spews relentlessly from the supercomputer-grade machine controlling it, and bad things happen as a result.
Whats to be done? Patch the software to rate limit the transmission of midi frames. This is a giant nothing burger.
Re: Old MIDI Instruments Don't Like Modern MIDI. What's to Be Done?
#4> The 8-bit microprocessor on a 1983 synth has problems keeping up with the rapid-fire data that spews relentlessly from the supercomputer-grade machine controlling it, and bad things happen as a result. Whats to be done? Patch the software to rate limit the transmission of midi frames. This is a giant nothing burger.
Whats to be done?
Complying with the Midi 1.0 standard is an obvious option. Old instruments are designed to handle 31,250 baud because that is the standard.
If a new device does not transmit at exactly that rate, it is sending a different protocol, not Midi 1.0 (and the Midi 2.0 requires implementations to be backward compatible).
transmission of midi frames
Midi 1.0 is based on bytes not frames. If you are sending frames, you are sending a different protocol, not Midi 1.0.
Re: Old MIDI Instruments Don't Like Modern MIDI. What's to Be Done?
#5> The 8-bit microprocessor on a 1983 synth has problems keeping up with the rapid-fire data that spews relentlessly from the supercomputer-grade machine controlling it, and bad things happen as a result. Whats to be done? Patch the software to rate limit the transmission of midi frames. This is a giant nothing burger.
Whats to be done? Complying with the Midi 1.0 standard is an obvious option. Old instruments are designed to handle 31,250 baud because that is the standard. If a new device does not transmit at exactly that rate, it is sending a different protocol, not Midi 1.0 (and the Midi 2.0 requires implementations to be backward compatible). transmission of midi frames Midi 1.0 is based on bytes not frames. If you are sending…
Whole lot of pedantry which says the same thing I said - fix the code.
Re: Old MIDI Instruments Don't Like Modern MIDI. What's to Be Done?
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whats to be done? Complying with the Midi 1.0 standard is an obvious option. Old instruments are designed to handle 31,250 baud because that is the standard. If a new device does not transmit at exactly that rate, it is sending a different protocol, not Midi 1.0 (and the Midi 2.0 requires implementations to be backward compatible). transmission of midi frames Midi 1.0 is based on bytes not frames. If you are sending…
Whole lot of pedantry which says the same thing I said - fix the code.
When a person doesn’t understand how Midi works (i.e. bytes vs frames in your case or speed in TFA’s author’s case), a person can’t fix the code without recognizing and accepting their ignorance.
There’s a protocol and it’s in a standard.