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From: leland@joevax.UUCP (Lee Woodbury)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Know any RS232 <==> MIDI devices?
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 18:49:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 18:49:15 1985
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I'm interested in interfaces between MIDI devices and
any computer or terminal with an RS-232 port.  I know of 
(but little about) one called the MIDIC available
from Hinton Instruments (168 Abington Road,
Oxford OX1 4RA England, telephone Oxford (0865) 721731).
There's a brief description of the MIDIC in the Summer 1985
issue of the Computer Music Journal,9(2), and some talk
about Hinton's release of software for the MIDIC in the
June 1985 issue of the IMA Bulletin (the newsletter of 
the International MIDI Association), but I've seen little else.

A MIDI controller which can be used with any RS-232-equipped
computer is very attractive; I don't mind writing software
(in fact would rather write my own), but I hate the idea of
being hardware-bound to a particular machine like the IBM-PC.
So it sounds good on paper...but has anyone on the net
seen or used MIDIC and/or similar devices?

Thanks for any responses.

Lee Woodbury
Bell Communications Research
MRE 2D-290
201-829-4535
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