[linux-audio-dev] MIDI interface latency

[Jens M Andreasen]

On fre, 2004-02-13 at 00:53, Tim Goetze wrote:
> David Olofson wrote:
> 
> >Depends on the wire. For standard 31250 bps MIDI cables, the minimum
> >latency for a NoteOn message (status, pitch, velocity - three bytes)
> >is 0.96 ms. (It is one start bit and one stop bit, right...?)
> 
> yes, but you forgot there's only two bytes for the message in running
> status.

And unless you want to do some wonderful modifications of the message,
you can simply retransmit each byte as soon as you have received it.

/jens 
> 
> tim