It's not a matter of trying to get a non-standard format across. Not all; it is a matter of supporting more possibilities. Besides, as I pointed out, MIDI will play alright on Csound, even if it is a poor way of conveying musical data.
But hey, if MIDI looks damn good to you, it is worthless trying to say anything else. Good luck. Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 10:18 AM Subject: Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO > On Jan 20, 2008 3:27 AM, victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What you say does not make any sense to me. The MIDI >> standard is *one* of many, and in fact the poorest of them >> all. Besides Csound is probably the most used computer music >> language with composers of Computer Music and its >> score an integral part of it. > > I know every developer wants to believe that their own > file format is a standard (and a good one too!), but come > on now. I went looking for stuff that supports csound. > I found **one** program, about 5 wrappers (at least one > of which also supported MIDI), and **zero** hardware. > The situation with MIDI is radically different; there are > a tremendous number of MIDI programs and devices. > > Perhaps it will be more obvious this way: > > Notice that the XO ships with a paint program. Suppose > that the author invented a nifty new image format. Would > it be good to use this format? > > Notice that the XO ships with a word processor. This > word processor could use RTF, OpenDocument, OOXML, > TeX, *roff, XHTML... or a custom format that the authors > just happen to have invented. What do you think, go with > the custom format? > > Notice that the XO lets you record sound. The most > popular unpatented format was used. The authors could > have invented their own sound format and used that though. > See any problems with doing that? > >> But it is not the only way that >> can be used to run it: MIDI, OSC, API event calls, etc., >> are also possible. > > Excellent. You're ready to drop the non-standard stuff. > >> If anything we should promote better standards than limit >> ourselves to a very poor one. > > MIDI looks damn good to me. > > If you really think you have it beat though, go get an RFC and > an ISO standard. Get multiple major hardware manufacturers > to start building your new standard into their hardware. See if > you can get Microsoft and Apple to follow. Then maybe it will > be time to begin the process of slowly saying goodbye to MIDI. > Only then does the format belong on the XO. > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
