Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:35676 comp.arch:11616 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!silver From: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.arch Subject: MIDI on the PC (was Re: programming the com port) Summary: Not with the 8250, you don't. Message-ID: <15046@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 17:29:58 GMT References: <927@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> <446@usage.csd.unsw.oz> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Andy Silverman) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 11 You should probably know that you can't use the 8250 to talk to MIDI easily. MIDI is a current loop, not RS-232 so without hardware modification you can't use standard serial ports to talk to MIDI. Also MIDI signals are opto-isolated from the UART, so grit your teeth and buy a MIDI controller from Roland or Voyetra. +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Andy Silverman | Internet: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu | | "All stressed out and | Compu$erve: 72261,531 | | nobody to choke." | | +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+