A great deal of music these days is performed using digital audio editors, for exactly the reasons that I and BT have brought up. There is no such thing as a _practical_ limit on voices. There is a limit, or there isn't. Someone will ALWAYS push the limit. Granular synthesis always involves sample-frame accurate timing and frequently requires stacks of hundreds of simultaneous grains. As I found by experiment, MIDI can't control this. Period. Art is no democracy, it is a meritocracy. I prefer a tolerant meritocracy where I can be a musician and other people who disagree with me can also be musicians, to an intolerant meritocracy where you can be a musician, but I cannot be a musician or I have to be a musician in a technical ghetto because you refuse to support my technical requirements. If you have software that you need to keep using that has much work invested in MIDI manipulations, then GMPI's host MIDI API library that will be used by hosts to translate MIDI streams to GMPI streams going into plugins should also be usable within plugins for translating GMPI streams back into MIDI. Would that be acceptable to you? If my suggestions on GMPI message semantics are followed, and word semantics are similar to MIDI anyway, these translations should be extremely efficient. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martijn Sipkema" <m.j.w.sipkema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 7:00 PM Subject: [gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 22:39 > Subject: [gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI > > > [...] > > Most music these days is assembled using software. > > And performed using MIDI equipment. > > > There > > is not and should not be a limit on number of voices. > > For most uses there is no _practical_ limit on the number of voices. > > > Haven't you ever heard > > of granular synthesis? Are we supposed to outlaw this? > > What has that got to do with it? > > > Maybe you should only > > use triads, no 7ths and certainly no flat ninths. Or maybe you should > stick > > to 4/4 time since that's good enough for 7/8 of music. Is that OK with > you? > > all these are possible with MIDI... :) > > > As I said before, I AM A COMPOSER AND I AM THE ONE WHO DECIDES WHAT IS > > ADEQUATE. I do not decide this as a programmer -- which I also am -- but > as > > a musician. It is musicians who decide what is music. > > I also play music and MIDI is fine with me... > and why the CAPS? > > > If two musicians disagree, then the only definition of music that is valid > > is one that has room for both of them. > > Interesting take on democracy. > > [...] > > It is not nice, it is not polite, and it will not work to deprecate > > someone's work...[...] > > It has nothing to do with being nice or polite. > > --ms > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list > Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the > following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own > words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not > redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. > > Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi > Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe > -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe