I have a lot of trouble with MIDI, even if I'm now able to use Linux for
my MIDI work, but I guess the developers and people who write for
magazines should do their homework, e.g. absolutely nonsense:
"As I implied earlier MIDI has been a mixed blessing for composers. It
is certainly an empowering technology, but its capabilities have
well-defined limits. Sometimes those limits are merely inconvenient,
while at other times they can be fatal to a project. Some of MIDI's more
frustrating limitations include :
* Serial transport mechanism - Data must be ordered sequentially,
problematic with heavy data streams.
* Slow transmission rate - Again problematic with heavy loads.
* Integer representation of pitch - Ignores other feasible
representations.
* Bias towards 12-tone equal temperament - See above.
* Bias towards keyboard controllers - Difficult to implement on wind
instruments, guitars, other instruments.
* Integer representation of controller values - Results in
insufficient granularity during controller movement.
* Insufficient timing resolution - Again an integer representation.
* Requires special hardware - Needed for external connections."
(http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introduction-osc)
Sorry, this should not be any kind of flame, but it's simply not the
truth. MIDI knows SysEx, breath control, synth that have one voice for
every side of a guitar, different scales, absolute control by SysEx
etc. and every computer should be able to have more than one MIDI
output, e.g. the Atari ST has got. Having several MIDI outputs, that
don't have jitter because e.g. of the experimental real-time by Linux,
even oldish synth from the 80ies are able to do everything that
shouldn't be able by MIDI. I was a coder for MIDI in the 80ies and today
I'm using stuff from the 80ies.
Anyway, I'm fine with Linux now, but it isn't a help to blame MIDI ...
it's Linux that's not fine with MIDI.
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