However many can be sent at 31250 Baud...64 in less than a .1 seconds...

Vern Jones, Sound Research

Mike Singer wrote:
>
> Hazelwood Lyle wrote:
> >
> > For some projects that will get you very close to what you describe,
> > I'd consider MIDI as the medium to connect the PC to the PIC.
> >
> > You can find some similar PIC projects at www.audiomulch.com/midipic/
> > Just look at the MIDI INPUT section of the page.
> >
> > The advantage here is that you can use any MIDI sequencer software on
> > the PC to fire your triggers. You can get a Joystick to MIDI interface
> > (MPU-401) for US$25 from many sources.
> >
> > By assigning musical notes to each event being triggered, it should be
> > easy
> > to create and edit your performance as a song.
> > Software for editing should be cheap and fully featured for your
> needs.
>
> Great idea.
> The only thing bothers me slightly: How am I to press 64 keys
> simultaneously when needed? :-)
> How many keys can MIDI work out at one time?
>
>    Mike.
> ---------------------------
> P.S. Why not MAX232 serving to, say, three PICs?
>         And simplest two-byte one-way protocol?
>
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