10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
2:39 p.m.
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Atte André Jensen wrote:
Maybe it's all just a shitty old protocol that is
finally being replaced
by stuff like jack transport (that works very reliable, actually
precisely between renoise and ardour).
If you're speaking of MIDI, I have to agree about the actual protocol,
but we still can't do without it. I have a Roland Jupiter-8, an
Oberheim OB-8, an Ensoniq ESQ-1, and a Multimoog connected to MIDI via a
CV/gate convertor. There is currently no replacing the sound of these
older synthesizers with any softsynth I've ever heard, plus there is
just something about old classic synths.
For the sake of instruments like these, Linux needs good MIDI support!
(It would be nice for more current hardware to go with something that
works over gigabit ethernet and uses IP...much less problems I'd
imagine...)
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