[LAU] Replacing/enhancing MIDI, and OSC

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman <jeb at ponderworthy.com
> wrote:

>
>
> 1.  Is MIDI-over-USB as constrained in timing, as MIDI-over-DIN?
>

No.


>
> 2.  I had not heard of MIDI-over-OSC.  And although I had heard of
> MIDI-over-Ethernet I had not thought of this context.  Is it possible to
> send MIDI events, either encapsulated in OSC or by USB or Ethernet, without
> that low timing resolution of the DIN setup?  If I set up something like
> USB-MIDI-to-Ethernet, is it possible to see real advantage?
>

No. But almost nothing talks MIDI-over-OSC, it is just a gimmick. ipMIDI is
more widely used, but as usual there are competing standards for MIDI over
ethernet and ipMIDI is actually the lesser used of the two - I forget the
name of the other one.


>
> 3.  Is JACK MIDI constrained in the low timing resolution of original
> MIDI, or is it more flexible?
>

Not constrained. JACK MIDI has essentially instantaneous transmission
between clients. When talking to external hardware, the timing is dictated
by the device driver API being used.
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