21 Jan
2008
21 Jan
'08
5:21 a.m.
The entire keyboard/synth industry has been trying to
do that for a
decade now, and only now it's beginning to take shape (MIDI 2.0).
There's just so much cruft in MIDI 1.0 that it's hard to extend it
without breaking it.
I don't think its fair to say that MIDI is encumbered by cruft. It
is encumbered by falsely-applied standards - that is to say, the MIDI
standard itself is very rarely fully implemented, properly, and then
broken out to the user in a way that exploits the full specs.
NRPN's, for example, are a mysterious voodoo, yet they are designed
to solve so many of the issues that have risen, time and again. The
distinction between MIDI 'standard controllers' and 'manufacturer-
specific controllers' is also kablooey - we can thank Yamaha and
Roland hating each other for that issue, I think.
;
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Jay Vaughan