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>It's for a midi project.  I need to AtoD a pressure
>sensor, and insert volume control messages in a midi stream (so it needs to
>be midi aware).  I figure at midi speed I have 80 cycles to play around with
>per every bit.


Although it may be too slow for your application, I think that
a TV color crystal 3.5075... mhz will give you a midi baud rate
when devided by some power of 2.  So by using such a crystal for
the PIC osculator, the RTC could generate the timming simply.

Bill C.