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Re: Boomerang MIDI

At 6:16 AM -0700 6/30/99, american qabalah wrote:
>The addition of MIDI enablement would not have to make it more complex,
>though - the only necessary visible addition to the Boomerang would be two
>small sockets at the back.  If you didn't use MIDI (and therefore were 
>looking
>for the ports) you probably wouldn't even know the unit was different.
>
>Cheers
>Tim

Well, just for a basic midi feature set you need a way to set midi channel,
set midisync to transmit/receive/off, set cont controller numbers, etc. So
there is some kind of interface necessary for that, and the thing
necessarily becomes more complex. You can't get it both ways... The cost is
certainly higher too, since you have to add a bunch of parts and spend a
lot of time writing software.

Take it from somebody who knows, adding midi to a looper is a BIG can of
worms....:-)

kim

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