16 Feb
2015
16 Feb
'15
6:23 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman <jeb(a)ponderworthy.com
wrote:
1. Is MIDI-over-USB as constrained in timing, as MIDI-over-DIN?
No.
2. I had not heard of MIDI-over-OSC. And although I had heard of
MIDI-over-Ethernet I had not thought of this context. Is it possible to
send MIDI events, either encapsulated in OSC or by USB or Ethernet, without
that low timing resolution of the DIN setup? If I set up something like
USB-MIDI-to-Ethernet, is it possible to see real advantage?
No. But almost nothing talks MIDI-over-OSC, it is just a gimmick. ipMIDI is
more widely used, but as usual there are competing standards for MIDI over
ethernet and ipMIDI is actually the lesser used of the two - I forget the
name of the other one.
3. Is JACK MIDI constrained in the low timing resolution of original
MIDI, or is it more flexible?
Not constrained. JACK MIDI has essentially instantaneous transmission
between clients. When talking to external hardware, the timing is dictated
by the device driver API being used.