[gmpi] Re: Drilling down into MIDI->GMPI conversion
- From: "gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:39:58 -0400
Frankly, this is an enormous pain in the butt. Question for musical
instrument manufacturers: did you gain most money from the relatively open
MIDI protocol and consequent sheer explosion of equipment sales, or from
more proprietary SYSEX/HID implementations with "lock in" and
"partnerships"?
I think it's a case of gaining a great deal from the sheer opening and
expansion of a new market, versus gaining a little bit by fighting over a
new corner of it.
GMPI done properly could lead to a new phase of explosive growth in music
gear by finally bringing fiddlers, jazzers, and who knows what into the
networked studio.
Original Message:
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From: Paul Davis paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:28:16 -0400
To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Drilling down into MIDI->GMPI conversion
>These USB controllers may not have a MIDI jack, but if they are music
>controllers they almost always implement a MIDI driver. If all it's got
>is HID or proprietary USB then the gear can't interoperate with other
>gear, and what's the point in that?
Do you want me to send you the responses I get from companies that
make these devices when I ask them for specs so that we can do an
open-source implementation of their protocol? Even for Mackie, they
were pretty pissed when it turned out that Emagic had inadvertently
leaked the entire sysex control protocol for the {Mackie,Logic}Control
on their website.
Interoperation of DAWs and control surfaces is part of the old "host
differentiation" that we've heard about. Apparently no reason to favor
interoperability in this market when you can use protocols to forge
strategic relationships ...
--p
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