[gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI

  • From: Chris Grigg <gmpi-public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:34:30 -0700

Jeff said:

Chris said: 
 It'll take time for the HW world to catch up with GMPI, we need to
 make friends with that lag period.  I'm reminded of the phrase "Don't
 fight a fact, deal with it."

Well, we already said GMPI synths can be multi-timbral.

If they're multi-timbral, then they have channels, so you can do the guitar synth trick... right?

BTW, my 'don't fight a fact' line was meant in the sense of co-existence of MIDI handling with all the other cool stuff in the spec, I wouldn't remove any of the other stuff and would have both, to preserve the possibility of MIDI only for those who want to use it. Folks who don't want to would never have to go there at all.


We've said the
conversion from MIDI notes to GMPI is painless and transparent.  All
existing hardware will continue to work just fine.
  Hardware makers can take advantage of GMPI if and when they are ready.

There's no issue.

Not for notes, program changes, aftertouch, pitchbend, and controllers. But there's also the whole land of 0xF0, SysEx. Can't transcode that stuff into anything else, like you can with the others. SysEx has to remain as raw bytes to work at all.

-- Chris G.

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