[gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI
- From: "Martijn Sipkema" <m.j.w.sipkema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:54:54 +0100
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:23:34AM +0100, Martijn Sipkema wrote:
> > ok. But no MIDI, no synthesizer. Or you end up thinking up a
> > new protocol "better" than MIDI for synthesizer control. And it
> > had better be compatible to MIDI because that is what most poeple
> > will be using to control synthesizers. And I don't think one should
> > be addressing MIDI2 in this plugin spec...
>
> Come on now, we've already GOT something that is "better than MIDI" and it
> is easy to make it "compatible with MIDI". Furtherm that's what the
> requirements say: must interoperate with MIDI. That's the key -
> interoperate.
>
> A host can receive MIDI and turn it into something more useful internally.
> A host can turn internal stuff into MIDI.
>
> it interoperates beautifully.
I'll shut up about MIDI, but I think it is important to stress that MIDI
has been around for years and is in wide use. Its problems are known.
I'm not saying it is perfect, but I also don't think it is _that_ bad; if it
had
been it would have been replaced by now.
--ms
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