Arnold Krille wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 01 November 2009 16:47:44 Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: >> i'm playing with my shiny new BCF2K, and i'm going to use it some >> distance from my machine, so i'm going to try a midi link instead of USB. >> what is the maximum length of midi chain that you have used without >> problems? i read somewhere that no more than 15 meters are recommended, >> which strikes me as pretty short even if it's unbalanced. >> my idea is to abuse a cat5 cable as a triple midi loom - do you think >> that could work? pinout would be as follows: >> 1 midi 1 signal >> 2 midi 1 ground >> 3 midi 2 signal >> 4 midi 2 ground >> 5 midi 3 signal >> 6 midi 6 ground >> 7 common +5V >> 8 common +5V > > If you want to make use of the drilling of the pins in cat5, it should be > > 1+2 Midi 1 > 3+6 Midi 2 > 4+5 Midi 3 > 7+8 Midi 4
sure, i just numbered the wires, your count is based on rj45, but i meant the same. > Why do you want to carry 5V? According to my docs, Midi is just Signal+ and > Signal- and shield. Which, when carried over Cat5, should be all on the > shield. any midi has to carry 5v iirc. and midi is not balanced, so there is no signal+ and signal-. would be cool if there was - then 100m would be no problem :) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
