You can call it MIDI 1.1 or Extended MIDI or MIDI 2.0 or GMPI or anything you like, as long as it does what I want. Original Message: ----------------- From: Ron Kuper RonKuper@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:14:30 -0400 To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gmpi] Re: Drilling down into MIDI->GMPI conversion >>> I don't a musician would be excited by a new gestural controller until they heard one in action or saw what it could do. <<< IOW, "If we build it, they will come." Reality check: If you build it, get major market movers to support it, spend millions marketing it, educate salespeople and consumers about it, *then* they come. The MMA has done all of the above for MIDI for the last 20 years. That's a lot of momentum. Maybe we should leverage that and call GMPI's control protocol MIDI 2.0. Actually, better not, because if we call it MIDI 2.0 then no one will support it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe