[linux-audio-user] Re: USB-Midi

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Christoph Eckert hat gesagt: // Christoph Eckert wrote:

> 
> > Hopefully the future will bring an alternative to midi. ;) Even the
> > present has midi plugs replaced by USB plugs all over (like all
> > M-Audio controllers). I just ask myself, why manufacturers still
> > transport midi over that USB cable instead of something more
> > powerful.
> 
> as a user of free software I'm *glad* they still use MIDI. Otherwise it 
> would be something proprietary and we had less chance to use the 
> devices.

It wouldn't need to be something proprietary, it could be for example
OSC, which is perfectly supported in free software. Also HID comes to
mind, which is, what people working with more demanding input devices
like sensors often work with. And then there's mLan.

Ciao
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