24 Jul
2006
24 Jul
'06
4:11 p.m.
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 10:41 -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
Extending MIDI's domain past what it is currently used for is just
fundamentally the Wrong Thing - the need for such a library is basically
proof of that.
(I'm not saying RTP MIDI is bad at all, but it's not the solution to
every problem out there)
-DR-
As for
flexibility. If we stick to the NRPN's for a moment, we could
think of them as a huge switch-board with 127*127 destinations (msb*lsb)
each capable of holding a 14bit value. Their meaning is what we want or
need them to be. To me this seems like a flexible enough starting point.
As for applying meaning to bit-patterns, that would depend on the
application. My own variables comes in multiples of 8 or 4 so that helps
in remembering what and where they are.
I assume that RTP MIDI could be wrapped in a nice library that makes working
with it a lot more pleasant? Couldn't someone implement a protocol over RTP
MIDI sysex/NRPN/something that feels something like OSC at the code level? Or
would that just not be very useful?