[gmpi] Re: Drilling down into MIDI->GMPI conversion
- From: "gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:29:31 -0400
Because of the success of MIDI, musical style evolved to suit the
limitations of MIDI in ways that are audibly obvious -- regular meters,
relatively "square" feel, and so on. This situation is absolutely
temporary. If, when styles change as they certainly will to more flexible
time and pitch, performers will ABANDON MIDI and use (a) hard disk
recording, (b) OSC, (c) other more precise plugin protocols (it is to be
hoped, including GMPI). "Laptop music" is the laboratory where these
alternatives currently are evolving.
Let us not forget, when MIDI came into vogue, hard disk recording and
networking in the studio were beyond individual means. We are now decades
into these technologies. Anyone in an industrial country who seriously
wants a networked studio and real-time DSP can have it. In other words,
lack of alternatives channeled innovation down the MIDI path. There is no
such channel today except marketing and inertia.
High-bandwidth MIDI over USB or fireware is an intermediate step. Once the
high bandwidth has been implemented, higher precision and other data types
and messages can be tunneled through the MIDI protocol via SYSEX. The
studio wiring remains unchanged. Only the performance controller and its
hardware and firmware need work, and the user's software. But this is a
complicated, messy workaround.
I thought we were trying to avoid this nest of protocols.
Original Message:
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From: Ron Kuper RonKuper@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:00:50 -0400
To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Drilling down into MIDI->GMPI conversion
> Right now, musicians shut out of MIDI have no effective way to use
MIDI for this purpose
But you seem to be suggesting that GMPI's control language will some how
replace MIDI? IOW you want MIDI 2.0 to be a subset of GMPI? Taking
MIDI out of GMPI won't lead to the perfect digital saxophone or violin.
You're mashing together acousting music and electronic music.
GMPI is about music on computers. If you aren't recording sounds, you're
recording musical gestures. Until somebody invents MIDI 2.0 --
something which I didn't sign up to do -- MIDI is it.
>>[4a] (Hearkens back to [1].) MIDI is the de facto language for
>>capturing music performances today, and it's not likely to change
soon.
>
>No, its the defacto language for capturing a limited class of
performance from keyboards and a few other types of controllers.
The market for this limited class is measured in 9 digits of US dollars.
We should be so luck to be so limited.
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