3 ms·

You have system configuration problems. What you are describing would stop the entire music industry from functioning.

• Joeboy 9y ago
  I would agree that you probably can't literally hear the delay among five note-on messages if nothing else is happening. That'd be about .5ms which is pretty insignificant. But it does become a real thing if you're sending a lot more than that around, like pitch, velocity etc. It doesn't affect the music industry much because MIDI is overwhelmingly a software standard not a hardware standard these days, so the low baud rate doesn't apply. Edit: Wait, no, 5ms which is heading towards noticability but not there yet.
  • wedowhatwedo 9y ago
    Each midi note on and off always sends both pitch and velocity. The first byte tells you it is a note on or note off and the MIDI channel, the second byte tells you the pitch and the third byte tells you the velocity.
    • Joeboy 9y ago
      I should have said pitch bend and aftertouch.