Re: [LAU] An atrocity committed with PD (MIDI Spec) + (XG)

Steve McConville wrote: >> I am curious - has there been any move to modernize the MIDI >> connectivity standards to include USB or Ethernet? > There has been - there is a midi over usb standard. > > Midi is a poor starting point for modernisation not just beacause of > the pragmatic compromises mentioned above but also because it is > wholly unlayered (the spec covers everything from the physical up to > the presentational layer), That could be separated fairly easily, I'd think. > and has it's expansion room squeezed into > the SysEx ghetto. That's a big problem. > Midi over ethernet would be even less pleasant, and > less logical, than doing RS-232 over ethernet. Only reason I mentioned Ethernet is that there are analog musical instruments around already that can transmit their audio via Ethernet (instead of analog audio cables). > OSC has fixed these problems and should have been built into > everything since the mid-90s but so many people have invested time in > learning MIDI that they wouldn't countenance working with anything > else. It looks like RESTful web services may eventually replace both, > however. I suspect that MIDI won't be budged. It is a standard in the music world, and I doubt that many musicians care about it's limitations. They may not even be aware of them. MIDI certainly keeps time in a lot finer increments than I'm able to play - that's why sequencer programs have quantization functions!