[gmpi] Re: closing reqs 3.8

Hi Chris,
>the notion that a plug-in parameter requires a fixed MIDI Controller number
is obsolete.

Too early to decide that.   Some here will agree, some won't.  We havn't
discussed MIDI yet.

Best Regards,
Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Grigg" <gmpi-public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: closing reqs 3.8


> At 4.23...
>
> "If GMPI is to succeed at all, it must be interoperable with the
> enormous installed base of MIDI applications, plugins, and devices.
> Pure MIDI, however, is too limited for GMPI's use. GMPI plugins and
> hosts need more flexibility than simple MIDI can provide. The notion
> that a parameter requires a fixed MIDI CC number is obsolete. In the
> software world of control signals, any CC should be able to go to any
> parameter."
>
> ...we should probably define 'pure MIDI' and 'simple MIDI' so people
> know which of MIDI's many, many aspects you have in mind there.   For
> example, the MIDI event message transport layer per se doesn't force
> any particular interpretation on any controller number; really its
> flexibility can't be beat.  Perhaps you're confusing MIDI per se with
> unfortunate limitations in the ways MIDI has been implemented in
> previous OS and plug-in APIs?
>
> Can I suggest replacing the above with the following?:
>
> "If GMPI is to succeed at all, it must be interoperable with the
> enormous installed base of MIDI applications, plug-ins, and devices.
> However GMPI's handling of MIDI must take care to preserve the
> inherent flexibility of the MMA MIDI specifications, and avoid the
> numerous harmful assumptions and other limitations on MIDI message
> contents and semantics from which some previous OS and plug-in APIs
> have suffered. In particular, the notion that a plug-in parameter
> requires a fixed MIDI Controller number is obsolete; in the software
> world of routable control signals, any MIDI controller message source
> should be able to drive any GMPI plug-in control (parameter)."
>
> -- Chris G.
>
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