you are right Andy, I did not sell the without version at all :-)
sure I will merge the input to the output just like the EDP
I must that this ads a delay, which is small compared to laptops and
older gear with slow processor or new gear that often runs with
Linux because we have a 500MHz ARM processor without OS (they call
bare metal programming now what we naturally did in the past, the
EDP was even bare assembler :-),
[ I hope we can treat everything within 8 audio samples = 180us
(the EDP used 32, the laptops usually 64 or more)
still, we need to let the 3 bytes come in to analyse and then send
out again. MIDI is 1MHz: 1us/bit, 24us/message
so its 24us to read, 180us to treat and 24us to write and we should
stay below 0.25ms right? ]
but tradition says that in to out adds delay and it will be
difficult to convince everyone with such calculations :-)
another good argument for the thru might be that the out is ocupied
for example:
in - the pedal
thru - to another unit that is controlled by the same pedal
out - sync to some drum machine
the cost is not shocking. parts with drilling, soldering, testing
probably adds less than 5$ to the end price
its a rather big connector, I asked because I wanted to save space.
but it looks like the lack of the connector hurts more people than a
15mm longer box :-)
thank you!
Matthias
On 12.Apr, 2014, at 10:06 AM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
well,
there *will* be a bunch of yes answers for a question put like this.
Lets remember that every feature has a cost, either $$$
or in terms of *other features*.
Question:-
For Evoloop, is there good reason why the midi Thru function.
can't be handled by merging the input to midi Out?
Is there a real need for a *dedicated* Midi Thru socket?
andy
On 11/04/2014 23:17, Louie Angulo wrote:
Yes yes yes midi thru!