lll@iris.brown.edu (Larry Larrivee) (03/29/91)
I'm posting this for a friend with a brain-dead newsreader: --------------- Has anyone ever attempted to use this device with an Amiga? I recently found a source of these for dirt cheap; unfortunately, they come without software or documentation. All I have is a 4"x6"x1" box with some MIDI ports, 1/4" jacks and what looks to be a RS-232 serial port. I know that these are common in the MeSsy-DOS world, but I don't know if they will only run with that box. Can anyone familiar with this unit come up with a couple of pointers?? I am not a MIDI novice, I've been running Dr. T's KCS for years now, but just don't know my way around this piece of hardware. Thanx! akf@iris.brown.edu ------------- You may reply to the above address or to me at lll@iris.brown.edu. Thanks.
karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) (03/30/91)
In article <54447@inkwell.UUCP> lll@iris.brown.edu (Larry Larrivee) writes: >Has anyone ever attempted to use this device with an Amiga? I recently >found >a source of these for dirt cheap; unfortunately, they come without >software or >documentation. All I have is a 4"x6"x1" box with some MIDI ports, 1/4" >jacks >and what looks to be a RS-232 serial port. It's not a serial port on the back, it's a special parallel interface that happens to use a DB-25 connector. The MPU-401 has a small processor and some timers inside; it offloads some of the functions required of a sequencer. This was very useful back in the Apple II days. The speed of modern machines, and the MPU's 8-track limit, have made it such that, these days, most of the sequencers that I know of (mostly Sequencer Plus Mark III) just put it in "dumb UART" mode. -- -- uunet!sugar!karl Keeping 255 messages and deleting 158. --