[gmpi] Re: a bit on MIDI (was ramped events)

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:15:09 -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > boundary.  Limiting the use of MIDI messages in GMPI to just the 
> > standardized meanings would kind of suck IMHO.  MIDI was never meant 
> > to be limited in that way.
> 
> Oh, no, no such limit needs to exist.  That would be bad bad bad.

Disagree, MIDI is complex and we probably dont want to ecapsulate every
variation on it (eg. all the forms of SYSEX), so just let people blash out
known-typed blobs that will be sent out at the edge of the graph as midi
bytes and used as blobs internally.
 
> > think we also have to take seriously the fact that MIDI parser 
> > writing has already been done at least hundreds of times in existing 
> 
> And is a waste of memory and CPU, and is a waste of programmer time for new
> plugins.

And a big source of bugs.

- Steve 

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