[gmpi] Re: MIDI: Common event coding

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:02:12 +0100

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:25:54PM +0100, Martijn Sipkema wrote:
> [...]
> > > This re-packaging allows the host to track all MIDI messages equally 
> > 
> > instead of saying MIDI, say "external".  The goal is not to ghetto-ize
> > MIDI messgaes, but to make ANY external message become GMPI internally.
> > OSC, HID, MIDI, etc.
> 
> You only change the encoding. A plugin that wants to support both MIDI and
> OSC will still have to support both these protocols in the new encoding. I 
> really
> don't see what this gains...

That wasnt my understanding of the proposal. Maybe I mesread it, but my
reading is that they would just have to handle the one format.

- Steve

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