mu106sbn@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (Stephen Hartford) (05/03/87)
[the line battle continues...]
In the April '87 issue of Keyboard magazine, Peter Gotcher
writes:
"... several developers writing software for the Amiga ..
have been unable to use the Amiga's high speed clock to time-
stamp incoming MIDI events (the clock starts and stops unpredict-
ably when it is interrupted by other processing tasks). The only
alternative is to use the Amiga's 60Hz video retrace to time
events, resulting in a timing accuracy of 16ms..."
This accuracy is not good enough for any serious MIDI recording /
sequencing. Is this the reason so little MIDI software is being
developed for the Amiga (vs. ST and Mac)? I've heard talk of a
MIDI card for the A2000 - is this card going to have a dedicated
high speed clock on it? SoundScape shows the kind of sophistica-
tion MIDI software is capable of having on the Amiga. It would be
a shame if developers shy away from future Amiga software because
of hardware limitations.
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Stephen Hartford, programmer (a.k.a. student) ///
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