Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!MRees.wbst@XEROX.ARPA From: MRees.wbst@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: MIDI and RS232 Message-ID: <8806@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 09:22:17 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8806 Posted: Fri Mar 1 09:22:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:00:15 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 10 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