8 Sep
2004
8 Sep
'04
7:14 p.m.
On ons, 2004-09-08 at 17:40, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Dave Phillips wrote:
Dave!
Clemens fine article pointer made me look around in midi.org and (just
for the record) here is the spec for midi over firewire (with multiple
midi-devices):
http://www.midi.org/about-midi/rp27v10spec(1394).pdf
Mmmm .. Seams like that old elephant in wheelchair got himself a brand
new pair of rollerscaters ;)
mvh // Jens M Andreasen
I'm doing some research for an article
about Linux MIDI support. In my
text I briefly describe the evolution of the MIDI specification since
its adoption, mentioning things like MIDI Time Code, MMC, the sample
dump standard, and the standard MIDI file. However, one item has me a
bit mystified. I'm unable to ascertain whether multi-port interfaces are
in fact described and supported by the spec.
SMF files can have the "MIDI Port" meta event (FF 21) to specify the
port number for the following events. RP-019 describes the "device
name" meta event (FF 09) with exactly the same purpose
(<http://www.midi.org/about-midi/smf/rp019.shtml>), but it isn't used
in practice.
HTH
Clemens