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| quote: | Originally posted by DeZmA
If you own or have seen the virus TI in action I highly doubt there will ever be a new generation midi. Vst integration makes you wonder how you dealt with CC and sysex (especially the latter one) commands for all those years. I do believe that it will be implemented for years to come for compatibility reasons.
In fact, with all the new fancy gear and synths these days, you can't understand how much crap music there is on the trance market (remember the old days with ferry corsten and mike for example before they decided to start making crap) - but that's another discussion - |
Yeah, that's all good, but there's a limited market for VAs among professional producers. Most of them hunt down the classic synths for their unique sounds, whereas you can essentially swap out one VA for another, or for a computer. And all those classic synths use plain ordinary MIDI.
Yeah, I know, I'm going to get 71 TI owners jumping on me about how it's not just another VA. Whatever, you're entitled to your opinion. I'm just telling you, MIDI isn't going anywhere, and USB isn't going to replace it or even come close to matching it as a standard. USB doesn't even indicate any specific protocol - USB itself is a standard but the data you're sending back and forth to the TI is completely proprietary.
If any new standard takes hold, it will be precisely because it is 100% backwards compatible with MIDI. Same reason every new version of Windows has sold so well while OS X and all the Linux flavours are still relegated to obscurity.
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