[LAU] An atrocity committed with PD (MIDI Spec) + (XG)

[david]

thomas fisher wrote:
> On Friday 31 August 2007 01:09:07 david wrote:
>> Steve McConville wrote:
>>>> I am curious - has there been any move to modernize the MIDI
>>>> connectivity standards to include USB or Ethernet?
>>> There has been - there is a midi over usb standard.
>>>
>>> Midi is a poor starting point for modernisation not just beacause of
>>> the pragmatic compromises mentioned above but also because it is
>>> wholly unlayered (the spec covers everything from the physical up to
>>> the presentational layer),
>> That could be separated fairly easily, I'd think.
>>
>>> and has it's expansion room squeezed into
>>> the SysEx ghetto.
>> That's a big problem.
>>
>>> Midi over ethernet would be even less pleasant, and
>>> less logical, than doing RS-232 over ethernet.
>> Only reason I mentioned Ethernet is that there are analog musical
>> instruments around already that can transmit their audio via Ethernet
>> (instead of analog audio cables).
>>
>>> OSC has fixed these problems and should have been built into
>>> everything since the mid-90s but so many people have invested time in
>>> learning MIDI that they wouldn't countenance working with anything
>>> else. It looks like RESTful web services may eventually replace both,
>>> however.
>> I suspect that MIDI won't be budged. It is a standard in the music
>> world, and I doubt that many musicians care about it's limitations. They
>> may not even be aware of them. MIDI certainly keeps time in a lot finer
>> increments than I'm able to play - that's why sequencer programs have
>> quantization functions!
> 
> How does the " XG " extension play into this? How proprietary is it? 

I don't know - and each week I play a Yahama PSR-740 keyboard with 
Yamaha's XG. I've recorded some MIDIs using it, and they open just fine 
in Rosegarden and play in fluidsynth. Or maybe you're talking about 
something else?

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David
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