How do you keep Web MIDI from crashing a 1983 synthesizer?

8 points by halfradaition3 days ago

2 comments

sargstuff2 days ago
Nice retro-demo/motivation for "what's the point of protocols/abstraction layers"[0].<p>Use case argument for an add-on programmable logic array / micro controller board as security interface / non-standard to standard protocol translation.<p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<p>[0] : <a href="https://www.terryewell.com/m116/Docs/historyMIDI.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.terryewell.com/m116/Docs/historyMIDI.pdf</a>
- halfradaition19 hours ago
  We just throttle the Web MIDI stream in JS with 100ms pauses between packets so the 8-bit CPU doesn't choke.
Macha1 hour ago
I had the opposite problem where using my (recent-ish) cheap midi keyboard with WebMidi was crashing Firefox.
- halfradaition57 minutes ago
  That's usually caused by cheap controller firmware flooding the connection with continuous Active Sensing signals (0xFE bytes every 300ms) or noisy clock jitter.