Re: MIDI question

[Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com>]

At 6:31 PM -0700 8/14/98, Michael Pycraft Hughes wrote:

don't know the answers to the first questions, without doing the work
myself....I just tell programmers what to do, I don't normally have to do
it myself....:-)

>Further, MIDI 1.0 spec. defines 0 as voltage high and 1 as voltage low
>(???),  contrary to the way I've always thought of it.... does that mean
>that the line is transmitting 1's when it's not sending anything?

midi is active-low. the signal idles at 5V, which is a 0. it drives low to
represent a 1. Not very unusual, really.


>But anyway, I figure this is basically what gets sent at 31.25kHz... is
>that about right?

yep, it pokes along at that rate.

kim


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