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UART Tx

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First post, by dnewhous

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Can anyone tell me the UART Tx pin on a 5-pin DIN?

Daniel L Newhouse

Reply 2 of 4, by dnewhous

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There are two devices I am interested in. The Voodoo Lab Ground Control and the Rocktron Patchmate. Ground Control has a 7 pin out and a 5 pin in, the Patchmate has a 5 pin out and a 7 pin in. Can you tell the pin outs?

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Reply 3 of 4, by Jepael

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You could have told they are MIDI devices. Did you even tried reading the manuals?

There is no single UART Tx pin, but a pair of pins.
Standard MIDI output is not a single output pin referenced to ground, but differential output, pin 4 sourcing current and pin 5 sinking current.
99% of the time pin 4 is a fixed source and pin 5 is the one that wiggles the data out by sinking or not sinking current.

According to manuals, Patchmate input is completely compatible with standard 5-pin midi but extra pins used for phantom power. Same thing with Ground Control.