[gmpi] Re: NAMM working group meeting report

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:51:50 +0000

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:10:22 -0500, RonKuper@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>    Section 3.7 questions:  File I/O services seem to be missing from the
>    requirements document, under host services.  They need to be added.

This was discussed. I think we agreed that best practice would be to use
POSIX APIs, but its really up to each plugin developer.
 
>    Requirement 63 : GMPI will use no raw MIDI.  It was brought up in the
>    meeting that we should be cautious about this during the requirement
>    phase. A question was raised as to how we could exclude MIDI, given its
>    ubiquity and commercial success.  Also, if we exclude MIDI, what replaces
>    such things as SysX, MIDI channels, instrument voices?

Yes, for one, I'm now convinced that this is not possible, but we can move
unparsable MIDI, such as SysEx, round in typed blobs.

- Steve 

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