Re: TI-H: MIDI


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Re: TI-H: MIDI




I have a Roland Midi synthysiser board in my puter, its about half the 
size of a regular Sb16 board.....rip of the metal part and ports and it 
might fit in a large case.



>Right... Because MIDI would require hooking your calculator up to a 
MIDI
>synthesizer - either a keyboard, or a soundcard. The first one would 
wipe out
>most the portability aspects of the calculator. ;)
>
>What _would_ be required for the latter? Would it be easy to build a 
small
>MIDI box? I would figure it would be much more complicated - at least 
looking
>at a meg or so ROM to hold the sounds - and cost more than the SID 
solution.
>(The SID sure was amazing in it's day. Maybe it will be again...)
>
>
>> That's not my piont though. I have been sating MIDI like standard, 
not
>> true MIDI!!! all we need is an I2C 8-bit paralel chip or two, and a 
wave
>> form generator such as the MAX 038. Maybe we can find a serial 2 wire
>> waveform generator, but I doubt it. Personaly, I'd use the SID chip 
from
>> the commodore 128.
>
>
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