[LAU] MIDI over wifi on Linux, revisited

[Len Ovens]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2016, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:

> For midi over a network have a look at
>
>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTP_MIDI
>  https://code.google.com/p/midikit/

RTP_midi is supposed to be standard and does (if fully 
implemented) have error checking. The other standard is ipmidi (see 
qmidinet) ipMIDI does not make sure of 100%... it would have to be 
tunneled through tcp to get that. UDP tunneled through tcp on a local LAN 
may be acceptable timing wise for your purposes, I don't know.

MIDI, unlike audio, must have 100% reliablility to be 
useful. That reliablilty is first that all events must reach the other 
side and second timing needs to be preserved. A small miss in timing while 
anoying, is tolerable. A missing byte is not. One missing byte = either a 
missing event or a malformed event that can change the meaning of that 
event. (even from a note off to a note on)

Both RTP_midi and ipmidi sit on top of other IP protocols and are 
therefore wifi compatible.

I am guessing ssh or telnet over wifi (if set to binary) may work just as 
well too. I don't know if you need ssh or not. If you are willing to do a 
bit of programming, making a jack client connected to a tcp server/client 
should be easy enough though. I have not played with netjack and do not 
know how reliable that is for MIDI. I have not had trouble with Xruns 
though which would be the same thing.

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Len Ovens
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