[LAD] [Jack-Devel] JACK & MIDI

[Albert Graef]

Julien Claassen wrote:
>   And about the two APIs: why not? If you think about it thorroughly I'm sure 
> one can come up with a protocol, of which MIDI is a subset. Thus some 
> interaction between to apps (one using MIDI, one using the new thing) could be 
> possible.

The entire keyboard/synth industry has been trying to do that for a
decade now, and only now it's beginning to take shape (MIDI 2.0).
There's just so much cruft in MIDI 1.0 that it's hard to extend it
without breaking it.

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr.Graef at t-online.de, ag at muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de
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