[gmpi] Re: MIDI: Common event coding

> > What happens after the requirements phase is complete?  Will the MMA
> > members go off into a smoke-filled room, ignore all these good
ideas,
> > and do whatever they wanted to in the first place?  

> A good question.  Ron?

(I'll ignore the attack on the professional integrity of the MMA members
in Jack's question, and answer.)

So while this working group has been toiling away for nigh on a year,
the MMA has been locked up in a room with bad-sounding MIDI music piped
in, creating a new spec from whole cloth.  This public discussion is
merely a cover for the real MMA conspiracy to ensure that all future
music is written in 4/4 time with 3-operator FM synthesis. :-)

Seriously,

The process we set out last year was to have a public requirements
phase, followed by a members-only implementation phase, followed by a
public approval/revision phase, followed by a members-only ratification.

Yes, the implementation is a private effort.  But there's a good chance
that the MMA membership rules and fees will be amended to make it easier
for more of you to participate in the design phase of the spec... not
that it's really that hard to become a member today.

When we do the implementation, we will build a spec and standard that
meets the requirements this group comes up with.  If the implementors go
off and do their own thing they will have failed.

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