[gmpi] Re: MIDI: Questioning semantics

  • From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:12:27 -0700

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 06:07:03PM -0700, Chris Grigg wrote:
> The point is, formally speaking, OSC-style addressing per se is not 
> any more of a guarantee of Total Rewindability than MIDI is.
> 
> The assertion that OSC-style addressing makes plug state more 
> knowable than MIDI does is not formally correct.

That's correct.  I hope I never asserted that.  What I asserted is that
MIDI is interpretted directly by the plugin, without the host knowing.  If
anyone wanted OSC to go directly to the plugin, I'd say the same thing -
how is the host supposed to manage that?



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