[linux-audio-dev] Re: MIDI

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 12 November 2006 06:16, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
>On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> But I like that idea, a lot.  Maybe some enterprising LAD people could
>> get together and spec something like a midi interface running over
>> firewire, complete with the repeaters so it can be daisy-chained just
>> like midi can be, and hopefully release it into the PD as a new midi-2
>> interface standard.  And design it such that it never, ever gets into
>> the snails trail of the 31,250 baud interface it uses today.
>
>MIDI over IEEE-1394 (aka firewire) exists and is spec'ed by the MMA
>midi-consortium as an official standard. Unlike other publications from
>the MMA, this is a free download:
>
>http://www.midi.org/about-midi/rp27v10spec(1394).pdf

Great!  I guess I hadn't been paying attention.  Thank you very much for 
the link.
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Cheers, Gene