[gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI

  • From: Chris Grigg <gmpi-public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:21:02 -0700

Michael said:

We are not talking about communications between plugins and synthesizers.
We are talking about communications between plugins and hosts. As long as
the musical semantics of the protocol between the plugins and hosts are OK,
then it's up to the hosts to communicate with the synthesizers -- probably
using MIDI in many cases, but OSC or TCP/IP or multicast or customized USB
in other cases. Some (such as MIDI) synthesizers will not generate their
own note IDs, so the host will have to do it. Other, newer, synthesizers,
especially those using OSC or more capable protocols, will already have
assigned note IDs for handling unison string choirs, etc.

Just for information -- not trying to convince anyone of anything here -- MIDI over alternative physical transports is doing quite well both in products and standardization. There's USB MIDI, the standard for 1394 MIDI, proprietary MIDI in Yamaha's mLAN, proprietary MIDI over FireWire from MOTU, IEEE 1639 Ethernet MIDI, and now we have an RTP payload format for MIDI advancing to Last Call with IETF. MIDI over USB 2 is also getting some attention. I think Gibson is doing their own MIDI over Ethernet thing too.


-- Chris G.

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