[linux-audio-user] VST plugins and linux

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:50:26 +0000, nick wrote:
> Everyone seems to love knocking MIDI, but MIDI is a *real* standard,
> supported by countless manufacturers for two decades now. Any
> improvements or a new standard are going to arise from the MIDI
> consortium itself and the support of manufacturers.. If MIDI were too
> primitive for the job, then we wouldn't have all these neat hardware
> synths!! MIDI's simplicity is also one of its greatest strengths along
> with its low overhead and easy processing.

MIDI isn't too primitive to be useful (obviously), but there are
interesting/useful things you can do if you have more expressive power.
XAP doesn't ignore MIDI, its totaly midi compatible (for input), but it
can do things that MIDI can't (eg. playing overlapping notes at the same
pitch).

Obviously if you want to output things that MIDI can't represent then
you're going to loose something. No supprise.

Yes MIDI is useful, no that doesn't mean you have to be bound my its
limitations in everything you do.

- Steve