[LAU] Concurrent Patch Management, and process control

[Jonathan E. Brickman]

>> "Robust Session Management" has now been replaced with something much
>> better:
>> 
>> http://lsn.ponderworthy.com/doku.php/concurrent_patch_management
>> 
>> All patches are now kept running all the time, are switched by MIDI
>> channel from the MIDI controller, and can be played simultaneously.
>  ...
>
> Although I am not much of a musician, and have only played with midi on a 
> much older machine, I have to say that this is the first truly new 
> approach to the patch switching problem to come down the pike since I 
gave 
> midi up quite some time ago.  Very creative in my old broadcast engineers 
> technical view.

Thanks, Gene!

> We seriously need a MIDI-2 standard that addresses this.  A pure glass 
> fiber jumper cable could easily do the 16 byte command word, and do it 
> with megaword/second speeds, in addition to being the perfect on stage 
> humm isolator that plagues the analog copper cabling (that can give you a 
> lethal shock if not wired correctly) way too often.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

I think the strongest effort to replace MIDI-1, is OSC.  OSC-over-Ethernet 
seems the common transport, and it doesn't seem to have a maximum transport 
speed or rigid timing like MIDI does.  There is an HD-MIDI out there but it 
still appears to be mostly in the process of seeking to be used.  But just 
now I was not able to find a single 88-key weighted controller with OSC.  
Hopefully in the near future.

J.E.B.