[LAD] [Jack-Devel] JACK & MIDI

[Jay Vaughan]

> 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.


I don't think its fair to say that MIDI is encumbered by cruft.  It  
is encumbered by falsely-applied standards - that is to say, the MIDI  
standard itself is very rarely fully implemented, properly, and then  
broken out to the user in a way that exploits the full specs.   
NRPN's, for example, are a mysterious voodoo, yet they are designed  
to solve so many of the issues that have risen, time and again.  The  
distinction between MIDI 'standard controllers' and 'manufacturer- 
specific controllers' is also kablooey - we can thank Yamaha and  
Roland hating each other for that issue, I think.


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Jay Vaughan