Comments on: how to set a serial port at MIDI speed in linux

By: Joost Yervante Damad

Joost Yervante Damad — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:01:47 +0000

I recommend the book “Making things talk” to learn the basics about serial communication and hooking things up.

By: desNotes

desNotes — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:06:15 +0000

I am looking to learn more about connecting & configuring serial devices. Do you know where I can get the basics? I want to be able to connect via USB and receive data. Can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
desNotes
desNotes AT gmail DOT com

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:05:51 +0000

In the “good old days”, baud base used to be 115200. So there was no way to divide that into 31250 – instead you had to change the crystal to a different frequency. This would screw up the calculation, but with most MIDI software running under DOS, that was easy fixed by poking a few hex bytes in the right place…
Fun it was.