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Yeabut mic connectors are 3-pin. MIDI uses 5 pins. XLR connectors are also used for DMX (lighting) cables. Other XLR pincounts are available (obvs), plus colour-coding rings. A stage set-up for a big performance will have hundreds of assorted XLR cables, I just reckon someone missed a trick when creating the MIDI standard.
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I'm looking at the spec. and I don't see TX and RX. It's either MIDI IN or MIDI OUT, so the connection is unidirectional, and it uses a balanced pair at 5V.
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You won't see it in the spec, as the spec doesn't actually say it's a UART. In practice it is. The data line is either your TX line or your RX line depending if it's In or Out (each cable deals with only one of them)
It operates at 31250 baud. In any case I got it working. I had my TX and RX lines crossed like I said.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Well, all I can say is that the spec. I'm looking at does say UART!
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Well, fair enough
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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It sounds super frustrating, but also irritatingly fascinating. I wonder if there are any books on the subject from the era.
Will you write an article about all of this when you get it all figured out? I would love to read that.
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I fully intend to. I'm a little ways away from it now though. I have big plans.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Doesn't MIDI come in 5v and 3.3v? You might need a level shifter. E.g. ESP32 is 3.3v and won't appreciate 5v input.
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My module has a level shifter and can operate at either. I found the problem eventually. My TX and RX lines were crossed because I was confused about the orientation: I thought TX was labeled like "I go to the TX pin" rather than "I am the TX pin" - don't know where my head was at.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Hardware pins are always labeled from the perspective of the chip they are attached to. If a pin says TX, it means *this chip* right here transmits on this pin, and if you want to communicate between two chips, you connect one's TX to the other's RX.
I know you know all this, HTCW, so just for the benefit of someone else who might not...
Any hardware you find that doesn't follow this convention should be shunned and the designer publicly shamed in the town square -- but I think it's pretty rare overall.
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I did build my own MIDI card for the IBM PC ISA bus in the 80's. The main difference between MIDI and RS232 serial comms is the baud rate needed. I used a 2MHz crystal for the MIDI. RS232 uses 1.8something MHz crystal. The reason is that the baud rate needed for MIDI is not possible otherwise.
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Ah, yeah, because it's not divisible, I get you. In this it's not a problem, as the timing completely configurable via this little ESP32 MCU. They're little beasts.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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The breakout works fine. I've tested it with a loop between TX and RX. No lag.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Insignificant attempt to throw we hear ? (8)
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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TRIFLING
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YAUT Derek
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Insignificant
attempt try --> TRI
to throw FLING
we hear ?
TRIFLING
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Correct but pipped
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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... there are calls in the UK (at least) for pay parity between the male and female professional players.
I have to say that is a great idea, only fair, and which can only serve to improve the game as a whole.
The problem is going to be getting the men to take that big a pay cut ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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modified 2-Aug-22 3:48am.
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My favourite, from Twitter (credits to Amy Wright):
Men:
Football’s coming home!! It’s coming home!! IT’s coming!!
Women, 60yrs later: … FFS I’ll get it myself.
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****ing Wendy ball
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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OriginalGriff wrote: ... there are calls in the UK (at least) for pay parity between the male and female professional players. I don't know if supply-and-demand works the same way for sports on your side of the pond, but here the only way for women's sports to pay more and/or equitably is for them to draw the same size crowds to their matches. Maybe that would happen with more exposure and promotion in the media, but right now it's tough for them to draw big crowds at all, much less at the ticket prices they would need to pay the same as men's sports.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Supply-and-demand is universal. What isn't universal is the tendency of European and other governments to subsidize activities they consider "cultural", "in the public interest", etc., AKA robbing Peter to pay Pauline.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Co-ed teams might be worth a try.
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