But there is no TECHNICAL reason it can't satisfy everyone. You can recover your intact MIDI stream in your plugin with a conversion library. In fact one application of GMPI -- if it works! -- will to provide various conversion and processing plugins, similar to VSTi-DXi adapters or MIDI processing plugins, only more sophisticated. Original Message: ----------------- From: Martijn Sipkema m.j.w.sipkema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:17:14 +0100 To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI [...] > I'm sure he doesn't intended it to sound like this, but the practical > effect of Martijn's judgment is: your musical taste does not > deserve equal rights to our society's technical capabilies. No, all I am saying is that a single protocol won't satisfy everyone and I'm in favor of allowing several control protocols. And that is what most here seem to be against.. > I make no such > judgment about Martijn's taste or capabilities; I do not say his desire to > manipulate MIDI streams is dumb; on the contrary I have proposed a means > whereby he can continue to use MIDI streams in his plugins yet without > compromising the design of GMPI by introducing two protocols. If there should be only one protocol, why not MIDI? I never said there should be only one protocol, because I can see the need of different protocols for different situations. --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