Re: [LAD] MIDI 2.0 is coming

Jan 29 2019, Louigi Verona has written: ... I am not a developer, as such, but I can see an obvious degree of openness and better integration with proprietary products. Additionally, I see a great chance for accessibility, in every sense of the word. New hard- and software products could find better integration wit Linux DAWs and accessible editors would be so much easier. Programming a certain type of interface for MIDI 2.0 "devices" would be very rewarding, in that they can, hopefully, support a wide range of "devices" in one go. Why a text based editor for one or two synths? Why a special OSC implementation for one controller? But there's good reason to write a text-based editor for a whole group of synths in one go or implement MIDI 2.0 controller support in a DAW. Also, why about other completely closed protocols? If they did their job well, I think there's hope for more usage of MIDI 2.0 instead of developing specialised systems. I guess that such design is not only expensive, but also costly. Even maintaining your own existing protocols and extending them in time must be cumbersome. But maybe I'm kidding myself here. :) Also, why shouldn't the other way work as well? If open software developers for Linux specific plugins and stand alone software support MIDI 2.0, one could use a much larger palette of nice hardware to control them. The reverse psychology: why should I use Linux and LV2 plugins, if they don't work with my $1000 control keyboard? There's always hope. Take it with a pich of salt, more of an opinion and a hope than well-founded reasoning. Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s Don't worry, you're gonna be alright, But Cinderella's got to go <3 (Britney Spears)