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Not really. MIDI is a serial protocol. At any given time only one message can be sent down the wire. [1] So on the beat, an implementation can send either th
by brudgers 1y ago
Not really.
MIDI is a serial protocol.
At any given time only one message can be sent down the wire. [1]
So on the beat, an implementation can send either the clock pulse or note on or something else. [2]
If you send the clock everything else has to wait. If you send something else, the clock has to wait.
Now with modern computers, you are also dealing with USB which is a low priority parallel protocol and has to coordinate with everything else a modern kernel does.
Music is hard.
[1] premium hardware sequencers sometimes have two or more Midi Out to reduce contention.
[2] Midi Time Code solves this by encoding monotonic time into Midi and is how serious sync is done over Midi, e.g. in Hollywoood
- genewitch 1y agoWhat's the S in USB?