16 Oct
2008
16 Oct
'08
7:56 a.m.
Am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2008 schrieb Crypto:
reading recent posts concerning telnet there is one
thing I have not yet
understood:
Why would I use telnet for interprocess communication rather than e.g.
transmitting commands between two applications via software MIDI ports ?
Is it (much) faster? Or do I get less protocol overhead, or...?
It is more flexible. On telnet (which is really network transmission) you can
do anything you want, either a text-based protocol (usable via telnet:)
containing easy-to-remember named commands. Or you can implement a binary
protocol and push data (even lots of data) around.
And its network transparent. For example you can have a headless audio-box
acting as your soundfont player (with linuxsampler) and control it via
network from qsampler from a different machine.
When using (software) MIDI you are fixed to the limitations of midi. And that
is so limiting that even the hw-synth manufacturers do the complicated stuff
in their own protocols encapsulated in midi-sysex...
Arnold
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