[LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

[Len Ovens]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2019, Will Godfrey wrote:

> I've just been told about this.
> https://www.midi.org/articles-old/the-midi-manufacturers-association-mma-and-the-association-of-music-electronics-industry-amei-announce-midi-2-0tm-prototyping?fbclid=IwAR3yojtbqXc52uTwrBV4uaUV7JdsMHMKIXA2NudhUH4mw8uPlmbxAPoDW3Q
> 
> Looks like we might have quite a lot of work to do :/

While the 5pin din may be gone (not really, musicians like vintage gear), MIDI 
1.0 is not dead. It apears it has taken a sledge hammer to get people to use 
VST3 and the MMA doesn't really have the same power. I think that MIDI 1.0 is 
going to be around for a long time yet and that all new controllers will have 
the abillity to send MIDI 1.0. In my experience as a musician, I meet a lot of 
piano players for whom the difference bewteen MIDI 1 and MIDI 2 is just a 
number (like 192k ADC) and would not affect their performance. However, I have 
not met very many keyboard artists aside from those who work from their bedroom 
and who's music I only hear on youtube, soundcloud, etc. I do not know how much 
difference MIDI 2 would make for most of these people either. Epecially 
concidering how many of them use either their qwerty kb to enter notes or a one 
or two octave unit without even velocity...

In fact MIDI 2 seems to be a thing mostly for non-kb instruments or computer 
generated material (most of which is probably using CV instead of MIDI anyway).

MIDI 1 was huge, My DX7 supported MIDI before the spec was complete. It is easy 
to show off in the music store and sell. I expect the switch to MIDI 2 will be 
a much longer road, very hard to show off from a keyboard.

Well thats my opinion anyway.

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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net