[gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI

  • From: "Paul Kellett" <paul.kellett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:00:23 +0200

"Chris Grigg" <gmpi-public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Also I think Martijn raised a valid point with regard to order of 
> execution in re. realtime SysEx's that arrive (in the incoming MIDI) 
> in the middle of other, long messages... what timestamp does the long 
> one get, its start or its end?  Either way, the arrival order and 
> perhaps the execution order at the GMPI plug will differ from those 
> at the MIDI input.  This is non-transparent from a MIDI transport 
> POV, and could, maybe, be bad.
 
What does any device that interprets MIDI do?  What would a MIDI merge
do?  What has the OS already done to the MIDI stream before it gets to
the GMPI host?  These things are undefined and probably undefinable.
All we can do is make some sensible rules and follow them.


Paul.

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