I can handle the updating MIDI part with Chris G and Tom W, plus any other MMA members who can move this forward. For the purposes of this discussion, assume MIDI had a way to move float values around. Now what? -----Original Message----- From: gmpi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gmpi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Harris Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:35 PM To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:29:08 +0100, Martijn Sipkema wrote: > [...] > > MIDI can easily be brought up to date to support float values. > > There are already 14-bit NRPN messages, 2x3 byte messages. We could > > easily work with the MMA to define other multi-message float message > > types. Or we could use SysX buffers to send data. > > I don't think it would be easy and it would certainly take some time > before it would happen. Apart from that it is questionable if that is the way to go. > And the way MIDI evolves is not really relevant to this list; we > should use MIDI the way it currently exists or not use it at all. For once I agree. Updating MIDI is not our job. - Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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