Hi All, Even midi has it's shortcomings though the stream can sound OK if you ignore the actual structure of what is shown on sheet music. I play a fair amount of Swedish folk music, and the notation on paper is really just a convenient notation, and the real music doesn't actually sound like what is on the paper. It may be written as 3/4, but the 3 beats get different amounts of time, and this actually varies across Sweden. We talk about 'long one' or 'long two' for the beats. There was someone at the music academy here that actually studied this and made a machine to analyze the different lengths of time that the individual beats got. There was at sometime a program that would play the midi files that adhered to the paper notation and adjust the timing. I remember playing with it once, and it did sound a little more realistic, but still kind of stiff. Sometimes you slow down the whole thing at the end of a tune, etc., and that CAN be programmed into a midi file but now things are getting complicated......
Jonathan >----Original Message---- >From : [email protected] >Date : 2022-12-29 - 16:08 (CEST) >To : [email protected] >Subject : Re: [M100] M100 Audio / music > >On 12/29/22 6:56 AM, Alex ... wrote: >> I've got a vintage MIDI synthesizer with the exact same CPU as the >> M100. (Korg Poly800) >> This is actually the reason I bought the T102 I have, as a platform to >> learn 8085 assembly. It is absolutely fast enough to process MIDI. The >> protocol was designed for and proliferated on computers of this era. >> >> In the Tandy's case, the hitch is really getting the UART to go the >> right speed. Last time I tried, no combination of timer/divider >> settings would get it close enough to 31250 Baud. > >Yeah, this was my thought also regarding the baud rate. The closest you >can get is the divide by 5 option which gives 30720 baud ... about 1.7% >error. Of course even if it would work, it also means you need a MIDI >synthesizer instead of just the M100. > >Ken >
