[gmpi] Re: Drilling down into MIDI->GMPI conversion
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:59:16 -0700
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:47:36AM -0600, Chris Laurence wrote:
> I suppose this is as good a place for me to jump in as any. Greetings to
> all.
Welcome aboard.
> it is off the table for those supporting MIDI in GMPI. I know that I am
> interested in MIDI in GMPI as a bridge to the future if I may use a cliche.
What part of MIDI do you need to bridge into the future that NMiG model
does not provide? In fact, GMPI is the bridge between MIDI and the
future.
> Plugin developers are lazy. Yep. So what? Why shouldn't they be with
> To address a concern which has not been expressed, but may be implied. If
> MIDI is available, what incentive is there for controller manufacturers to
> develop beyond MIDI? This, I believe, assumes too much laziness. In fact,
So on one hand you assert that developers are lazy, and rightly so. Then
you assert that they're not *that* lazy.
Look, if I believed that MIDI input would only be used for a tiny slice of
legacy transition plugins, I wouldn't be so against it. But Ron and Chris
and Martijn and crew are making me believe more and more that *lot's* of
plugin makers, especially synths, will use MIDI-only and give GMPI control
the middle finger. Then we've invented an API for almost NO practical
gain.
I want consistency. And as long as I believ that the majority will
just use MIDI because it's what they know and what they have code for,
then I am against it.
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