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Date:      Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:06:17 +0900
From:      Seigo TANIMURA <tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp>
To:        nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de
Cc:        tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp, zinnia@jan.ne.jp, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Call for Review: Voxware midi driver for serial ports
Message-ID:  <19990418150617N.tanimura@sakuramail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:37:07 %2B0200" <19990417133707.A39454@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
References:  <19990417133707.A39454@saturn.kn-bremen.de>

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From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Subject: Re: Call for Review: Voxware midi driver for serial ports
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:37:07 +0200
Message-ID: <19990417133707.A39454@saturn.kn-bremen.de>

nox> > nox> > For the modules with serial interfaces(most modern ones like Roland SC-88 have):
nox> > nox> > 
nox> > nox> > 		     38.4kbps
nox> > nox> > 	PC ----------------------------- Midi Module
nox> > nox> > 	    Serial Cable for the Module
nox> > nox> > 
nox> > nox> > I got to play sequences successfully under the situation shown above.
nox> > nox> > I used SC-88, with a 'computer port'. It accepts the bitrates of both 31.25kbps
nox> > nox> > and 38.4kbps, transforming the signal internally. You can plug some other
nox> > nox> > midi modules and instruments to the module connected to the PC. In this case
nox> > nox> > the module also acts as a midi interface.
nox> > nox> 
nox> > nox>  Has anyone tried things like sending a big sysex dump to something
nox> > nox> connected there?
nox> > 
nox> > 
nox> > I tried sending sysex messages to display some frames of picture on the LCD of SC-88.
nox> > One frame takes 64 bytes. I sent sysex at around 6-8 frames/sec for 10 seconds.
nox> > I had no latency to recognize, as I experienced on sbmidi.
nox> 
nox> I thought about that as a means to test flow control, for that I'd guess
nox> you have to hook someting up on the SC-88's midi port and send _it_
nox> something big.  OTOH maybe even that won't be enough, RAM is cheap today
nox> and who knows how big a buffer the SC-88 has...


I am afraid I have no more modules nor instruments, so I cannot do anything further.


Another bad news, I tried driving my SC-88 connected directly to a PC using
Windows 95 and Portman PC/S driver, to find a miserable result. I saw no midi
messages come properly, so Portman PC/S should be cooking the signals in some way...


Seigo TANIMURA           |M2, Nakagawa Lab, Dept of Electronics & CS
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