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From: MRees.wbst@XEROX.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: MIDI and RS232
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 09:22:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  1 09:22:17 1985
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There is a problem with the MIDI data rate being too slow, and some
rumblings of maybe (hopefully) upping the rate in version 2 of the spec.
Simultaneous events of more than 2 or 3 notes (for most types of voices)
do not sound simultaneous.  But, if your synth supports the "running
status" mode (i.e., you don't need to send a status byte until it's
different than the last one), you can save 320msecs per message by not
sending redundant status bytes.  It helps, but it doesn't fix the
problem.

MRees.wbst@xerox.arpa