[linux-audio-user] VST plugins and linux

[manuel.op.de.coul at eon-benelux.com]

Nick wrote:
>> Mainly because MIDI is very primitive and supporting MIDI at a low 
level
>> ties you to it to some extent. XAP has a highlevel control interface 
that
>> MIDI can be converted into trivially, but can handle other things.

>I still have trouble understanding this view (except for non-standard
>tunings..)

Non-standard tunings are also part of the MIDI standard, in a later
extension called the MIDI Tuning Standard.
I tend to agree with you. No Linux softsynth fully implements all
MIDI codes at the moment! Then how can one expect support of an even 
bigger standard?

Manuel