[LAD] MIDI 2.0 is coming

[Len Ovens]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Kevin Cole wrote:

> Never one to fear displaying my ignorance / laziness...
> 
> In my limited readings, I had gotten the vague impression that OSC was sort of
> MIDI 2.0.  Does MIDI 2.0 incorporate OSC or will they remain two distinct paths?

Certainly OSC is a step beyond MIDI 1.0. But it has never been backwards 
compatable with MIDI 1.0 and does not try to negotiate for OSC and fall 
back to MIDI if it can't. OSC has next to no standards beyond transport 
which might explain its failure in the commercial world. Each OSC 
application makes up it's own set of commands. MIDI 2.0 still has a large 
number of predefined commands... larger than midi 1.0.

However, the biggest reason it is not midi 2.0 is that it was not released 
by MMA...

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Len Ovens
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