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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.
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Date: 3 Oct 89 17:29:58 GMT
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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.

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