Baud Rate Conversion to non standard (MIDI)

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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I've made a successful MIDI device. Now I want to make it wearable/wireless.

The problem I'm running into is Xbee's, if you tell them a non-standard baud rate, if I understand the manual correctly, they'll round up to the nearest standard.

I want to have a standard MIDI cable on the reciever end of the other Xbee.

I've done a couple of days of research and I'm seeing something about different types of asyncronous reciever/transmitters . UARTs. I'd prefer not to have to purchase the commercially made units as they're $200 a pop for baud rate converters. Something tells me they probably wont even have the 32.15k rate anyway.

Any point in the right direction would be much appreciated, including literature I might purchase.

I've got an electronics technician background so you don't have to use velvet kid gloves on me.

Anyways, thanks in advance...

Kristof

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perhaps you could use a cheap boarduino (smaller arduino) as sort of a baud rate translator. set up a software serial with the xebee and use the uart to connect to the midi. at 20$ it would still be less than the commercial options.