leland@joevax.UUCP (Lee Woodbury) (08/06/85)
I'm interested in interfaces between MIDI devices and any computer or terminal with an RS-232 port. I know of (but little about) one called the MIDIC available from Hinton Instruments (168 Abington Road, Oxford OX1 4RA England, telephone Oxford (0865) 721731). There's a brief description of the MIDIC in the Summer 1985 issue of the Computer Music Journal,9(2), and some talk about Hinton's release of software for the MIDIC in the June 1985 issue of the IMA Bulletin (the newsletter of the International MIDI Association), but I've seen little else. A MIDI controller which can be used with any RS-232-equipped computer is very attractive; I don't mind writing software (in fact would rather write my own), but I hate the idea of being hardware-bound to a particular machine like the IBM-PC. So it sounds good on paper...but has anyone on the net seen or used MIDIC and/or similar devices? Thanks for any responses. Lee Woodbury Bell Communications Research MRE 2D-290 201-829-4535 ..!bellcore!joevax!leland (or whatever path got me here)
hedger@ada-uts.UUCP (08/12/85)
I don't know if this would help,but here is a suggestion: get in touch with J.L. Cooper electronics in California....You should be able to find his ads in Keyboard magazine and hence his address...if you've never heard of him, Jim Cooper used to work at Oberheim and now runs his own company which specializes in interface boxes etc....they also market a lot of custom midi interface boxes,one of which is the Chromaface which converts the information from the Chroma's RS-232 port to midi. If he doesn't already have a box perhaps he can custom design something for you...???