Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ukma!nrl-cmf!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!langz From: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Amiga and MIDI Message-ID: <1921@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 01:45:43 EST Article-I.D.: bloom-be.1921 Posted: Tue Dec 1 01:45:43 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 03:22:43 EST References: <447@nuchat.UUCP> <32160@auc.UUCP> <528@otto.COM> <4567@pyr.gatech.EDU> <3813@trwrb.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 29 Keywords: MIDI Amiga Atari ST Xref: mnetor comp.sys.amiga:11770 comp.sys.atari.st:6557 In article <3813@trwrb.UUCP> sansom@trwrb.dsd.trw.com.UUCP (Richard Sansom) writes: >I use my printer all the time with my current MIDI setup (1040 ST, various >software packages, DX27, TX81Z, TR505). If I had to disconnect my MIDI port >each time I wanted to print something, I'd go nuts. > >-Rich Rich-- What Dave Carter was saying when he explained the dual use of the serial port for MIDI and lower baud rate I/O was that you can use your serial port for both, just not at the same time. The Amiga serial port already supports MIDI rates, and there is a standard software interface to the serial port. When you buy a MIDI connector you get a MIDI IN, a MIDI OUT, some models provide a MIDI THRU, and a serial port pass-through. These are just connectors and a few inexpensive parts to protect against line surges, etc. You plug the MIDI connectors into the serial port, then your printer into the serial pass-through on the MIDI adapter. The only time you can't use your serial port for printing is while you are using it to send or receive MIDI data, as the serial data destined for your printer would corrupt the MIDI data. There is no need to plug and unplug your printer however; you simply wait until your MIDI I/O is done, then print over the same port. Clear? --Lang Be seing you... --Lang Zerner langz@athena.mit.edu ...ihnp4!mit-eddie!mit-athena!langz "No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the only misfortune is to do it solemnly" --Michel de Montaigne