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The Future of MIDI
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| cryophonik |
Interesting article on potential replacments/upgrades to the current MIDI protocol.
http://www.askaudiomag.com/articles...s-for-musicians
It's odd that there's no mention of backward compatibility, which would have to be a major consideration for any new version of MIDI. |
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| itsamemario |
I think that's maybe because it's such a given.
Article was pretty allright in listing up the few options there are. I would have loved to see the writer speculate in what an optimal protocol would look like.
Anyone here who could comment on that? |
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| Juan Paulino |
| Fascinating... |
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| tehlord |
Without backwards compatibility it's kinda pointless, but an update would be welcome.
There's surely the bandwidth to run 128 midi channels in parallel these days so as to avoid the dreaded midi latency. |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
Without backwards compatibility it's kinda pointless, but an update would be welcome.
There's surely the bandwidth to run 128 midi channels in parallel these days so as to avoid the dreaded midi latency. |
Yeah, but that's sorta what I was getting at re: backward compatibility. Wouldn't the presence of older standard MIDI devices bottleneck data transfer speeds, or potentially result in mismatched speeds/latency between older and newer devices? |
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| Looney4Clooney |
osc is pretty much already in place and used by many.
any talk of midi 2 is utter nonsense. |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Yeah, but that's sorta what I was getting at re: backward compatibility. Wouldn't the presence of older standard MIDI devices bottleneck data transfer speeds, or potentially result in mismatched speeds/latency between older and newer devices? |
I really have no idea, but if there were a device or box that would handle all the clocking, I'd be game. I don't know enough about OSC to comment, and I suspect that there are many more that don't use it than do, but if that's the way forwards I don't see why todays computing power can't work it all out and keep the timing stable. We've had midi/cv convertors for years, and I don't see why this should be any different.
Even if it took the UAD/DSP route of being an external/PCIe device that worked over thunderbolt or USB3 I'd be happy to go down that route, in the same way that I'm happy for my Motu Midi Xpress to do all my midi now.
I guess the real issue is how your host operates with a new protocol. |
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