[gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI
- From: "Ron Kuper" <RonKuper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:11:40 -0400
You want someone to explain how MIDI works? That's a pretty tall order,
I would suggest looking for a book on MIDI on Amazon.
MIDI is a control protcol. Does that mean it's a "hardware protocol."
I don't think so. There are dozens if not hundreds of commercially
viable software synthesizers out there whose control input is MIDI.
As a control protocol it has limitations. It doesn't have a
representation for floats. It makes piano-like assumptions about note
numbers. But even with these limitations, it's survived 20 years --
TWENTY YEARS. There aren't many protocols that can claim this kind of
success.
Today MIDI is software too. And MIDI just works. From a dumb consumer
card with a built-in DLS synth, to Hans Zimmer with his 20 Gigastudios
running an external rig... it just works.
A couple of years I was walking the NAMM show floor with my boss. We
stopped by the Yamaha booth to watch a jazz trio jamming away. The horn
player was using a MIDI wind controller, streaming dumb 7 or 14 bit
integers with 0-127 note numbers. He didn't seem to notice or care.
Why do we want to throw aside something so successful and robust?
-----Original Message-----
From: gmpi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gmpi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tim Hockin
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:59 PM
To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:17:52PM -0400, Ron Kuper wrote:
> Someone, "No MIDI. We're done." If we have no MIDI, we are done.
> Literally.
Ron,
I've asked three times now for someone in the "MIDI yes" camp to please
explain to me how it works, given all the things we have talked about so
far.
No one has yet done it. I see a significant problem and AT BEST a
blight on an otherwise nice API.
Can you allay these concerns?
MIDI is a hardware protocol. It should be left there. GMPI is
software, the world needs to move on.
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