Re: [LAD] MIDI 2.0 is coming

On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:37:01 +0100 (CET), Jeanette C. wrote: From the link posted by Louigi: "[snip] With previous MIDI feature additions, the challenge has often been getting companies to actually implement it. Take MPE [1] as an example – despite being officially adopted in 2018 to the MIDI spec, only a handful of companies (like ROLI and Moog) have added it to commercial products [snip]" [1] From https://www.midi.org/articles-old/midi-polyphonic-expression-mpe: "[snip] Music making products (such as the ROLI Seaboard, Moog's Animoog, and Apple's Logic) take advantage of this so that musicians can apply multiple dimensions of finger movement control: left and right, forward and back, downward pressure, and more. [snip]" I mentioned the Animoog's touch screen feature in the the LAU thread about Dominique's DIY Theremin. A song that still is in progress has short parts with something similar to a Theremin played via touch screen, using the Animoog. It's impossible to record by MIDI now, maybe Logic could do, but neither the iOS, nor the Linux software I'm using is able to record and play it via MIDI. I guess that Animoog even doesn't send the required data. I had to record it as an audio track over and over again. However, even the Animoog's special "keyboard" couldn't do the whole job, to get a better spooky Theremin howling sound I needed to add a little bit of a TalkBox effect and important to this thread, I had to rework the Theremin alike audio track using volume automation. If it would have been possible to use MIDI instead of an audio track, it would have been possible to move notes a little bit forward and backward instead of playing it again and again, but it still would have require to do some rework. Programming the used sound to use up and down movements of the finger to either do the desired howling or to allow volume control, would have been possible, but it would require to learn how to do it. I purchased a lot of proprietary virtual synth with a lot of features neither old fashioned digital, nor analog synth provide. Sometimes programming sounds using those new synth is easy to do, but often it has got a learning curve that IMO isn't worth the effort. IMO it's better to spend time to improve the skills to play a real instrument, this gains more to make good music, than learning how to program each gimmick, that doesn't gain as much as people guess. I like to get MIDI 2, but as pointed out by the QjackCtl GUI thread, it would be more important if virtual synth would care about e.g. MIDI 1 clock to sync delays, LFOs etc., something a lot of proprietary synth already do, but that is still completely missing for Linux. Host integration of virtual synth still needs to be improved especially for Linux FLOSS , but still for proprietary software for other OS, too. IOW I'm sceptic that MIDI 2 does solve much, since there are easy to use MIDI 1 features already ignored, such as using MIDI clock to sync LFOs of synthesizers. It's comparable to politicians sharpening laws, that are already sharp enough, but suffer from other issues such as bureaucracy or something else caused by reality. Sharpening a law that isn't/can't be used, doesn't solve an issue. Regards, Ralf