audrey@inuxi.UUCP (Audrey Burson) (10/30/85)
I am interested in using a MACINTOSH as a sequencer and to help program and store voices for the DX7. Is anyone familiar with a hardware and/or software interface for the MAC? Any information that may help me will be appreciated! Thanks, Audrey B. inuxi!audrey
shep@datacube.UUCP (11/03/85)
Pickup a copy of "Keyboard" magazine and you'll see ads for dozens of hardware and software interfaces to the Mac. Doing it yourself is no big deal either. The Mac's serial ports are easily converted into midi ports with a few dollars of hardware. This "hardware" is just the glue to go to/from midi's current loop to/from the Mac's rs422-like levels. You can jam in an external clock at multiples of the 31.25k baud rate and tell the Mac to clock on that. CAVEAT: 31.23k baud could mean a char every 320uS; so interrupts are your friend! Shep Siegel UUCP: ihnp4!datacube!shep Datacube Inc.; 4 Dearborn Rd.; Peabody, Ma. 01960; 617-535-6644