csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) (08/19/85)
In article <152@rdlvax.UUCP> salzman@rdlvax.UUCP (Gumby) writes: >Also, where is a good place to pick up a MIDI spec? This is a very good question. I have seen people post things saying,"... a good place to get MIDI information..." but nothing about where to get the bare-bones MIDI specs. What's the baud-rate, word length ect... Could this be posted here or in Net.sources by someone who has it? If not, does someone have an address where you can send away for the MIDI specs? -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal Have they not suffered enough?" from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_
bobm@rtech.UUCP (Bob Mcqueer) (08/24/85)
> This is a very good question. I have seen people post things saying,"... > a good place to get MIDI information..." but nothing about where to get > the bare-bones MIDI specs. What's the baud-rate, word length ect... The International MIDI Association 11857 Hartsook St., North Hollywood, CA 91607 (818) 505 8964 Membership is $40/yr. which gets you the newsletter, a spec. and access to the "IMA Hotline", an information line, really. This is where I got my copy of the spec. There are more expensive levels of membership - $125/yr. "Retailer/Educator" and $300/yr. "Manufacturer/ Distributor". Sequential Circuits, Inc. 3051 North First St. San Jose, CA. 95143-2093 (408) 946 5240 The last I knew Sequential Circuits was selling copies of the spec. for either $6 or $10, but this is not firsthand information. I hearby volunteer for something I may wish I hadn't - IF enough people request it, I'd be willing to post a description of the MIDI protocol to this newsgroup. I will NOT do so by simply copying in the words from the specification - it has a copyright. But so far as I know, describing the protocol myself breaks no laws, and affords me the opportunity to put in my own two-cents worth along the way :-). I DO promise to try to make it easy to excerpt the technical specs from any "soapboxing" I might feel compelled to do. Bob McQueer {amdahl|mtxinu|sun}!rtech!bobm