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127th AES Convention Coverage (New York, NY Oct. 9-12)
PRESS RELEASE
Bluetooth Wireless MIDI Previewed at NAMM
July 27, 2001
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At the Summer NAMM Show, Midiman displayed a pair of wireless MIDI interfaces based on the Bluetooth standard. If your PC has a Bluetooth card in it, you can connect to MIDI devices wirelessly! Theorectically, it is also possible to use a pair of these as an expensive replacement for MIDI cables. Bluetooth wireless technology is a short-range two-way radio designed to replace cable runs. For example, if you have Bluetooth-equipped PC and PDA, you should be able to transfer data back and forth by just holding the PDA a couple of feet away from your PC. Support for the standard is still fairly nascent–Windows XP will not support it out-of-the-box. A Bluetooth card for laptop costs around $150. Furthermore, early reports indicate that Bluetooth radio may interfere with the popular 802.11 wireless standard since they both use the 2.4GHz spectrum. The prototype boxes Midiman had on display each had 2 DIP switches to select the radio channel, for a total of 4 channels available. For more information, visit their web site at http://www.midiman.net/.
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