Re: [LAU] Open Source MIDI control surface

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:24 AM, simone-www. io-lab. org
<cimo75@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Tim Blechmann <tim@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>>> Is anyone interested in an Open Source MIDI control surface?
>>>
>>> interesting thread as i am working on a control-surface myself atm ... i
>>> would be curious, if someone has some experience with higher-precision
>>> adc? most io boards i know (arduino/makingthings) provide 10-bit adcs,
>>> while i'd be interested in getting a higher resolution ... does anyone
>>> have experience with interfacing a microcontroller (e.g. arduino) with an
>>> external high-resolution adc?
>>>
>>> thnx, tim
>>>
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>>> http://tim.klingt.org
>>>
>>
>> Just for my own understanding isn't MIDI fundamentally an 8-bit
>> system? (256 max notes across a keyboard, 256 max levels, etc., ...)
>> If so why would anything above 8-bits make any difference? Or can you
>> specifically send controller information over multiple MIDI bytes?
>>
> MIDI rpn/nrpn messages combine 2 midi cc parameters to get double
> resolution, 14 bit.

Thanks.

> The answer to your question is that many of us are not using MIDI at
> all to receive data from sensors or whatsoever, programs like Pure
> Data can receive any kind of numbers over different protocols (HID,
> OSC etc etc) so no need to get int o the MIDI bottleneck resolution.

No, this was not my question. My question was answered above.

thanks,
Mark

> Simone
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>> Thanks,
>> Mark
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